Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
FULTON J. SHEENWe become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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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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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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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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