Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
FULTON J. SHEENCharity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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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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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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