Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
FULTON J. SHEENEvil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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