Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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 not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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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Most 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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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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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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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