Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
FULTON J. SHEENAll 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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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