Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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