If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
FULTON J. SHEENMany souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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There 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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