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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Goodness Life Yourself
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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Divine Generosity Hands Love Scars Service Wound
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Failure God Religion Remake Soul
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Discussion Existence Modern Sex Subject Time
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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Difference Love Man Reason Relationship Woman
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Born Conscience Grammar Need Power
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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Command Enemy God Religion Science Subject
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Charity Measurement Oneself
Nothing 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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Anxiety Assumption Creation Destiny Fake Freedom People
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Tax
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Command Difficult God Religious Scripture Soul
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Absence Action Patience Power Principle Right Way
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Blood Cost Creation God Himself Sin World
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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Appearance People Perspective Wrong
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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God Ourselves Suffering Wonder

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