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.
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 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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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 what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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