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.
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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Freedom 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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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