Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow 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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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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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