There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

Ambition Down High Higher

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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke

Another Between Day Difference

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

Declaration First Independence Interdependence

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

Bravely Cheerfully Faithfully Immortality

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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

Bound Critic Dismal Every

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Because Chance Gives Glad

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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Eternity Fear Grieve Long

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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

Friend Heart Needs Time

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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henry Van Dyke

Courage Fire Genius Set

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Van Dyke

Depends Fear Nothing Peace

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke

Being Best Culture Habit

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What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

Belong Become Are What

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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

Best Lives Longest Love

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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

Depend Does Happiness Inward

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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke

Agreeable Always Best Greatest

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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

Best Birds Except Possess

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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Henry Van Dyke

Heart Listening Necessary Never

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

Belong Death Forever Found

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

Express Feeling Following Gratitude

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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Fulton J. Sheen

Many Souls Fail God

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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Subject Confused Average Mind

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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Fulton J. Sheen

Sometimes Only Way Good

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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

Fulton J. Sheen

Believe Incredible Impossible You

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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

Fulton J. Sheen

Ever Since Days Adam

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When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

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When Die Something Comes

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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

Fulton J. Sheen

Evil May Hour Have

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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. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Fulton J. Sheen

Every Friendship Hearts Themselves

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Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Fulton J. Sheen

Satan Always Tempt Others

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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Fulton J. Sheen

Humility Dependence Pride God

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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen

Against Old Rebel Without

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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Fulton J. Sheen

Religion Most Commit Same

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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

Fulton J. Sheen

Modern Man Long Preached

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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. Sheen

One Two Ways Morning

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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Wish Light Must Keep

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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Before Sin Satan Assures

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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Most Like Look Inside

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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

Fulton J. Sheen

Worship God Do You

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A 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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Woman Get Angry Man

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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

Fulton J. Sheen

Those Think Church Pays

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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!

Fulton J. Sheen

When Child Given His

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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 hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Fulton J. Sheen

Advertising Tries Stimulate Sensuous

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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Destined More Nothing Deep-seated

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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Guide Angels There Are

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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love Meant Also Sign

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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Thomas Aquinas

Believe Desire He Know

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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Thomas Aquinas

Certain Circumstances Confronting Does

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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Thomas Aquinas

Endowment Equal Liberty Men

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Thomas Aquinas

Agreeable Become Even Friends

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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Thomas Aquinas

Bath Glass Good Sleep

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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Thomas Aquinas

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1697 Clergyman Quotes

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Van Dyke

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Henry Van Dyke

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Fulton J. Sheen

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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

Fulton J. Sheen

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

Fulton J. Sheen

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

Fulton J. Sheen

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. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Fulton J. Sheen

Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Fulton J. Sheen

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Fulton J. Sheen

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Fulton J. Sheen

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

Fulton J. Sheen

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. Sheen

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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Fulton J. Sheen

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.

Fulton J. Sheen

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

Fulton J. Sheen

A 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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

Fulton J. Sheen

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!

Fulton J. Sheen