"Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
~ Fulton J. Sheen ~
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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"Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but Himself. It was His Person around whi...
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"Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that...
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