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.
FULTON J. SHEENThe 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 out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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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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Nothing 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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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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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