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’!
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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