To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
FULTON J. SHEENIt was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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