Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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