Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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