Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
FULTON J. SHEENCivilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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