Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
FULTON J. SHEENWhen 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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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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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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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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