If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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