Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENWhen 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!
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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 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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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