All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
FULTON J. SHEENIt’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow 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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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All 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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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