Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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