You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
FULTON J. SHEENThe old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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