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Catholic Spiritual Direction: The Ten Commandments of ScrupulosityRead it.

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tu meditens; Deus ridens - While you are planning, God is laughing.

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It is interesting to note that the sedevacantists have not a single holy person or person of upstanding repute on their side: even an antipope was able to deceive, for a time, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Vincent Ferrer... but the sedevacantists cannot do even this, nor can they create of themselves such a holy person.

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The gap between the rich and poor would matter much less if many more of the poor were Franciscans.

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Remember always, when dealing with saints, that the saints' best friend made you, and that means He can take you apart, too.

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Pentecost already happened, most of 2000 years ago.

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The phrase "pro-life except" is self-contradictory.

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Most vocation discerners know their basic vocation long before they accept it: most discernment of which vocation it is occurs AFTER that fact is already interiorly known.

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If you can't hear what God is calling you to do, look into the vocation that you don't want yours to be.

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If your confessional is always full, there is too little Confession time, but if it is always empty, there is too little Confession-preaching.

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Your body language in prayer tells you what God already knows.

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You can't possibly make the Gospel relevant to people. It's already relevant.

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The only proper reason to advocate for changes to liturgical rubrics is the advancement of souls.

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Anything for the foundational reason for its existence or undertaking is not, "God wills it, as far I know," is fundamentally flawed.

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Some young children ask "Why?" all the time because they actually think that somewhere behind everything that happens there is a point. All things pointless are stupid - or play.

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If there is no need for a particular undertaking, it really isn't needed.

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Statistically speaking, at some point in your life you will probably encounter someone who is farther away from God than you are. But how will you know?

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Hurry no prayer; delay no charity.

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On earth, do everything for God and you will go to Heaven.

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God still blesses and God still curses.

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Man was not made merely for the glory of God, but to share in it.

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Modesty Principle: neck-to-knees, cover and obscure.

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In every marriage there is a strong party and a weak one. God is the strong party and man is the weak one.

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Those who strive hardest to cause others to have an open mind also strive the hardest to fill it.

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Open mind; empty mind.

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The first step to solving the problem is admitting that you have a liturgical drum set.

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There is a Pope. And chances are really good that you are not him.

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Your wasted time belongs to the dying, for they have little time to become saints.

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Dear Students: God does not mark you on your answers in mathematics and geography, but on your effort in mathematics and geography.

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Preservatives preserve food, not people.

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The man who is proud is a liar - he lies even to himself.

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Good things come to those who pray.

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To pursue someone of the opposite sex who does not push you toward holiness is spiritual suicide.

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By what right does a soul seek to know more of the Will of God when it has not done what it knows of the Will of God?

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Obama won on a platform of CHANGE. May the next candidate win on a platform of IMPROVEMENT!

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The Saints didn't wear jeans to Mass.

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Act like your actions could damn you but God's mercy can save you.

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Saints declare, "Death before sin!" while sinners find death after sin.

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The lives lived greater than the life of Christ belong to soul that do not need Him; those who live lesser lives need Him because of this.

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The man who knows he is a sinner desires only mercy - therefore he desires mercy to believe in. The man who does not desire mercy does not understand his sin.

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Sometimes there are acts of God, and sometimes God acts.

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There are a mere two steps to sainthood and the first is out of Hell.

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Only when a man lets go of everything can God hold his hand.

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When you are not in prayer, begin to pray.

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The phrase is "to be holy" rather than "to do holy" for a reason.

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In truth, there is no human will, only the human won't.

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You can't see Christ in anybody if you do not know who He is.

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Tolerant people are apt to tolerate anything but the Truth. Intolerant people only tolerate the truth.

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Human plates are for food; God's plate is for everything else.

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Pith is nothing if it is not well-employed.

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anima longa; vita brevis - the soul is long; the life is short

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A disaster of man is to live for his own sake;a disaster of art is exist for its own sake.

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Man is merely the dust for whom Christ died.

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Pray until God tells you to stop.

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Ask not what you can do for Godbut what you'll let God do in you.

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Let go and let God.

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Pride comes before a fall; humility comes before a landing.

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