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!
FULTON J. SHEENMany souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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