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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

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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Flower Forest God Light Material Ourselves Production Right Sun Tree
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Feeling Myself Pay Time Writing
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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Divine Forever Hands Moments Power Pregnant Yourself
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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Act Happiness Himself Humility Kindness Lose Man Moments Philosophy Time True
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Ancient Day Finding God Hard Time
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Difference End Hate Right Wrong
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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Divine Generosity Hands Love Scars Service Wound
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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God Ourselves Suffering Wonder
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Failure God Religion Remake Soul
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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End Generosity Love Philosophy Recover
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Blood Cost Creation God Himself Sin World
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Confession Death Food Funny
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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Affection Divine God Happiness Human Love
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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Bad Letter Open Ourselves Reason
Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Believe God Impossible Inspirational Yourself
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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Account Action Life Register

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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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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