To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
FULTON J. SHEENEver since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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