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.
FULTON J. SHEENUnless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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