Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
FULTON J. SHEENBroadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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