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?
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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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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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