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.
FULTON J. SHEENNever forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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