Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
FULTON J. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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