Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENSex 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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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