The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
FULTON J. SHEENMost commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Each 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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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