If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
FULTON J. SHEENLove 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.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in 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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