Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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