You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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