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. 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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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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