You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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