We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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