Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENSouls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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