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.
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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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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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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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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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Moral 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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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