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.
FULTON J. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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