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.
FULTON J. SHEENThe 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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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