Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
FULTON J. SHEENIt is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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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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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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