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.
FULTON J. SHEENHow 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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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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