Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
FULTON J. SHEENModern 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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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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