If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
FULTON J. SHEENLiberty 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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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