If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
FULTON J. SHEENSometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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