Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENLife is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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