If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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