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.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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 smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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