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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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The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.
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The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
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The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.
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But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
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A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.
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The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
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It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.
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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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Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
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They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.
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The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.
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All love craves unity.
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One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.
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Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.
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relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.
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To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.
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One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
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He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.
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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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Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.
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A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.
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It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.
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When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.
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The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
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Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.
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One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity.
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The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.
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A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.
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The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.
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The very fact that a man or a woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all, for though sex is replaceable, love is not.
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FREUDIANISM interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man.
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For a woman, love is its own reason. I love you because I love you.
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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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Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.
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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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Insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is.
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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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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.
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The Rosary is the book of the blind.
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As the "no" of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well.
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Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
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Man is incurably curious.
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Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.
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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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Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
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Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.
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Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
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Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.
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The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.
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Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.
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Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.
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Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.
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It takes eternity to make a man despair.
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Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.
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The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
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Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
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Facts themselves do not give knowledge
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Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.
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We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.
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Science is not wisdom.
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Love itself starts with the desire for something good.
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The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.
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Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.
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To fall in love means to fall into something ... And that something is responsibility.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II,
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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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