"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
~ Fulton J. Sheen ~
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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"Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him. The truth tha...
"He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies an...
"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...
"Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say l...
"Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no...
"To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a d...
"Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhap...
"It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who ...