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.
FULTON J. SHEENSouls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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