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.
FULTON J. SHEENSatan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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