If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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 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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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