God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENA 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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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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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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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