Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENThere are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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