Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
FULTON J. SHEENOur Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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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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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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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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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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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