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.
FULTON J. SHEENCivilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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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