Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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 that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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