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.
FULTON J. SHEENJealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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