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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

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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Believe Difference Fake Man Modern Tolerance View
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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Affection Along Angry Mistake Woman
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Civilization Command Dangerous Learning Obedience Right
Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Abandonment Aggressive Earth Life Soul
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Faith Live Religion Yourself
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Confession Death Food Funny
To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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Age Beautiful Deep Myself Woman
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Discover Himself Man Small Wisdom
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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Bad Letter Open Ourselves Reason
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Born Conscience Grammar Need Power
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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Freedom Justice Moral Physical Power Reduce Right
Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Better Earth Give Up God Religious
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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God Ourselves Suffering Wonder
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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Discussion Existence Modern Sex Subject Time
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Evil Freedom Goodness Ignorance Transcendence
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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Flower Forest God Light Material Ourselves Production Right Sun Tree

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