Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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