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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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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