Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
FULTON J. SHEENCommunism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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