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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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