Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
FULTON J. SHEENThere 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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Never 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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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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