Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
FULTON J. SHEENSometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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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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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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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 worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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