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.
FULTON J. SHEENNothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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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 is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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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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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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