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. SHEENA 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 old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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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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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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