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.
FULTON J. SHEENTo 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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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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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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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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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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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