We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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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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It 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 Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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