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.
FULTON J. SHEENHumility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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