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.
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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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