Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
FULTON J. SHEENThere 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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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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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