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.
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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Every 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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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.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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