Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
FULTON J. SHEENI wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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