If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
FULTON J. SHEENBefore the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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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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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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