Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
FULTON J. SHEENMoral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Every 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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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