Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
FULTON J. SHEENEver since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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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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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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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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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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