A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
FULTON J. SHEENMost commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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