Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
FULTON J. SHEENBelieve the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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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.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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