Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
FULTON J. SHEENIt is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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 you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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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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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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