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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Fulton J. Sheen

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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Divine Forever Hands Moments Power Pregnant Yourself
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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Born Himself Son Woman
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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Bad Forgiveness Man Religious Sin
Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Devil Himself Purity Temptation
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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End Generosity Love Philosophy Recover
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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Appearance People Perspective Wrong
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Atheist God Trust Worry
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Love People Remember Yourself
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Confession Death Food Funny
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Command Difficult God Religious Scripture Soul
Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Believe God Impossible Inspirational Yourself
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Civilization Command Dangerous Learning Obedience Right
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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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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Freedom Justice Moral Physical Power Reduce Right
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Communism Human Logic Man
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Failure God Religion Remake Soul

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