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There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

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No man hates God without first hating himself.

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Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken inc...more

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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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Our poor human heart is flawed: it is like a cake without the frosting: the first two acts of the theatre without the climax. Even its design is marre...more

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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will b...more

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All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in ...more

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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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All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not ...more

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Though the Son of Man expressed His federation with humanity, He was very careful to note that He was like man in all things save sin. He challenged H...more

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Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and sa...more

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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

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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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Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadmi...more