Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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