All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
FULTON J. SHEENSex 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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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