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. SHEENEvery moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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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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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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