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.
FULTON J. SHEENPatience 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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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.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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.
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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’!
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