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.
FULTON J. SHEENLiberty 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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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