Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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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.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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