Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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 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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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