God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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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 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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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