Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
FULTON J. SHEENI feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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