Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEENEach 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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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