Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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