God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENBefore 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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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