Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENSatan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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