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.
FULTON J. SHEENHelp 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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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