Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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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 feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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