Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENThe greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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