If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
FULTON J. SHEENIt 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.
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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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