Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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