Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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