Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEENLiberty 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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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