Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
FULTON J. SHEENEvery moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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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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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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