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.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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