Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
FULTON J. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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