Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
FULTON J. SHEENCommunism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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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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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.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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