Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
FULTON J. SHEENNothing 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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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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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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There 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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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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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