Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
FULTON J. SHEENLet those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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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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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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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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