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?
FULTON J. SHEENUnless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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 feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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