Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
FULTON J. SHEENCriticism 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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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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 you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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