We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
FULTON J. SHEENMoral 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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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 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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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