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. SHEENWe are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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