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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Evil Freedom Goodness Ignorance Transcendence
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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Abandonment Aggressive Earth Life Soul
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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Freedom Justice Moral Physical Power Reduce Right
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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Bad Letter Open Ourselves Reason
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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Beginning Face God Language Listening Prayer Silence Soul Talk Truth
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Love People Remember Yourself
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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Difference Love Man Reason Relationship Woman
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.
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Believe Difference Fake Man Modern Tolerance View
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Bad Forgiveness Man Religious Sin
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Day Evil God Negative Positive Time
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Greatness Miracle
Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Average Genius Jealous Pay
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Tax
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Acknowledgement Action Law Liberty Ourselves Responsibility
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Difference End Hate Right Wrong
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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Greatness Love Noble Transformation

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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