Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENSkeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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