Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
FULTON J. SHEENThere 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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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