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.
FULTON J. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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