Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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