Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENHumility 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 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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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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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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