Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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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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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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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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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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