Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENSouls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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