Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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