To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
FULTON J. SHEENAll 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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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