Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
FULTON J. SHEENAll worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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