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. SHEENPrayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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