Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
FULTON J. SHEENCommunism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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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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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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To 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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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There 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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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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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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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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