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. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made 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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