If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
FULTON J. SHEENThere 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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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