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.
FULTON J. SHEENEvil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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It 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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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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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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