Criticism 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.
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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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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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 wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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