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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”

Fulton J. Sheen

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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God Time Worship Yourself
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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End Generosity Love Philosophy Recover
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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Appearance People Perspective Wrong
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Born Conscience Grammar Need Power
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Discussion Existence Modern Sex Subject Time
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.
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Acknowledgement Action Law Liberty Ourselves Responsibility
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Beginning Face God Language Listening Prayer Silence Soul Talk Truth
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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Believe Difference Fake Man Modern Tolerance View
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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Consequence Evil Forgiveness Himself Result Sin
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Feeling Myself Pay Time Writing
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Dependent Himself Humble Humility Soul Thankful
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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Flower Forest God Light Material Ourselves Production Right Sun Tree
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Blood Cost Creation God Himself Sin World
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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Freedom Justice Moral Physical Power Reduce Right
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Communism Human Logic Man
It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Easy Face Finding Follow Hard Truth
If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Believe Deep End Live Yourself
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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Burden Compassionate Light Sorrow Yourself
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Anxiety Assumption Creation Destiny Fake Freedom People
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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Close Example Judgement Live Spirit
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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Best Therapy
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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Attention Blessing Fact Himself Life Pay Thinking
There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Dangerous Forgiveness Liberty Sin Word
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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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Devil Himself Purity Temptation
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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Abandonment Aggressive Earth Life Soul
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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Difficult Exercise God Prayer Religious Time Willing

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