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.
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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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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