Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
FULTON J. SHEENThe 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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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