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.
FULTON J. SHEENSouls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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 worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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 greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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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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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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