Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
FULTON J. SHEENIt is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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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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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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