When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
FULTON J. SHEENMost 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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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