It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
FULTON J. SHEENHearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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