The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
FULTON J. SHEENIt 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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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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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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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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