There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
FULTON J. SHEENEvil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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