Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
FULTON J. SHEENWe are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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 we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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