You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
FULTON J. SHEENUnless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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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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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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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