We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
FULTON J. SHEENHow could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against 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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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