Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
FULTON J. SHEENA smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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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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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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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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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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