No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
FULTON J. SHEENMost 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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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