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.
FULTON J. SHEENThe old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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 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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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