Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made 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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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