All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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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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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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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