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.
FULTON J. SHEENLove 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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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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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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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