Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
FULTON J. SHEENHow could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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