Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
FULTON J. SHEENJudge 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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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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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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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