Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
FULTON J. SHEENNothing 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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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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