We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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!
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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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