Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
FULTON J. SHEENPrayer 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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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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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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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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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