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.
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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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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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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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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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