Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
FULTON J. SHEENEvery moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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