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.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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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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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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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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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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