Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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