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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

Fulton J. Sheen

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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Consequence Evil Forgiveness Himself Result Sin
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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Bad Forgiveness Man Religious Sin
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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Affection Divine God Happiness Human Love
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Himself Man Prayer Right Wrong
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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Badness Capital Evil Goodness Spoil
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Evil Freedom Goodness Ignorance Transcendence
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Children Consciousness Forever Heaven Parents
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Greatness Miracle
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Difference End Hate Right Wrong
It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Easy Face Finding Follow Hard Truth
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Discussion Existence Modern Sex Subject Time
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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Divine Forever Hands Moments Power Pregnant Yourself
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Bad Letter Open Ourselves Reason
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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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Discover Himself Man Small Wisdom
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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Freedom Justice Moral Physical Power Reduce Right

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