Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
FULTON J. SHEENCivilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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