All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
FULTON J. SHEENHelp someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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