There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
FULTON J. SHEENA 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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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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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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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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