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. SHEENMost commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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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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