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.
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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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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