Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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