Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENPrayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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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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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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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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