Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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