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. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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 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.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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