If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
FULTON J. SHEENIt’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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