Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENOur Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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