Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
FULTON J. SHEENThere 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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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