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. SHEENFreedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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