Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
FULTON J. SHEENUnless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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