Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
FULTON J. SHEENModern 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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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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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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.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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