Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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.
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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