The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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