Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEENBroadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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 smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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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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