Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
FULTON J. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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