You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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