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.
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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