Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
FULTON J. SHEENThe old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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