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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

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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Discussion Existence Modern Sex Subject Time
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Charity Measurement Oneself
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Civilization Command Dangerous Learning Obedience Right
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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Believe Difference Fake Man Modern Tolerance View
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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Command Enemy God Religion Science Subject
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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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Born Conscience Grammar Need Power
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Greatness Miracle
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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Flower Forest God Light Material Ourselves Production Right Sun Tree
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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God Time Worship Yourself
Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Believe God Impossible Inspirational Yourself
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Tax
Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Devil Himself Purity Temptation
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.
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Affection Along Angry Mistake Woman
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Acknowledgement Action Law Liberty Ourselves Responsibility
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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Consequence Evil Forgiveness Himself Result Sin

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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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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