We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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?
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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