We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENThere 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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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