Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
FULTON J. SHEENTo 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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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?
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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