Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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 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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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 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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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