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. SHEENCharity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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