We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENTo 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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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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Help 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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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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