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.
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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