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.
FULTON J. SHEENBefore the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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