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The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited instincts. If they do good, the...more

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Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and thereby makes everyone nice. By denying sin, the nice ...more

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The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lion...more

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It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then He would have been only a great teacher...more

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He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings; He was a Saviour Who first disturbed a conscience...more

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The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most...more

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He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies an...more

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To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His l...more

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As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the ...more

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The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the cause of evil, as Plato held; neither is education t...more

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The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever...more

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Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

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Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The ess...more

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Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say, “I am to...more

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Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong about hunger, but the...more