Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
FULTON J. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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