Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEENLiberty 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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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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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Moral 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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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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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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