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.
FULTON J. SHEENMoral 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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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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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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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