Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEENBroadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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