Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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