Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
FULTON J. SHEENNothing 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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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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 we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our 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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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