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. SHEENBefore 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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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