It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow 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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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