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?
FULTON J. SHEENSatan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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