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.
FULTON J. SHEENWe are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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 you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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