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.
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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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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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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 live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Love 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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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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