Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
FULTON J. SHEENMany souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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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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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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