There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Every 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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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How 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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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