Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEENBroadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what 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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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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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