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.
FULTON J. SHEENMany souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Modern 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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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