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.
FULTON J. SHEENI feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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