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.
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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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