Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom 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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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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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