There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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