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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

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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Freedom Justice Moral Physical Power Reduce Right
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Born Conscience Grammar Need Power
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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God Ourselves Suffering Wonder
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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God Love Ourselves Religious Value
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Tax
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Day Morning Smile Suicide
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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Consequence Evil Forgiveness Himself Result Sin
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Greatness Miracle
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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Born Himself Son Woman
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.
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Attention Blessing Fact Himself Life Pay Thinking
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Dependent Himself Humble Humility Soul Thankful
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Ancient Day Finding God Hard Time
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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Difference Love Man Reason Relationship Woman
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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Acknowledgement Action Law Liberty Ourselves Responsibility
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Criticism Ourselves Photograph Thinking Wall
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Difference End Hate Right Wrong
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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Bad Forgiveness Man Religious Sin
Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Average Genius Jealous Pay
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Feeling Myself Pay Time Writing
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Communism Human Logic Man
It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Impossible Lose Religious Yourself
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.
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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Failure God Religion Remake Soul
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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Account Action Life Register
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Bad Letter Open Ourselves Reason
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Love People Remember Yourself
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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Flower Forest God Light Material Ourselves Production Right Sun Tree

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