Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
FULTON J. SHEENI wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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