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?
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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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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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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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