All 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.
FULTON J. SHEENMost commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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