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. SHEENAll worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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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 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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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