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?
FULTON J. SHEENIt was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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