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.
FULTON J. SHEENAll 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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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 are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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