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.
FULTON J. SHEENHelp 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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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