You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
FULTON J. SHEENThe old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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 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.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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Liberty 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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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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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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