Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
FULTON J. SHEENJudge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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