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.
FULTON J. SHEENHearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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