Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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