Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom 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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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