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.
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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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There 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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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