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.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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