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- Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with…
- Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only…
- The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.
- Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons...…
- The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
- In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone…
- Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who…
- The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones…
- The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And…
- 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…
- We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.…
- Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating…
- To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the…
- Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
- Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with…
- The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
- Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are…
- It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one…
- The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
- There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our…
- In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought.…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle