It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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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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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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It 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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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