Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
FULTON J. SHEENIt 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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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with 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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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