Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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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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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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