We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENWe 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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Sex 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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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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