Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
FULTON J. SHEENCommunism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Communism 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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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