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.
FULTON J. SHEENThe greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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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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