Freedom 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.
FULTON J. SHEENLife is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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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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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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