In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.
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In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break down doors to enter His own home? Without earthquake, or thunderclap: the flame has lit up the whole world from within.
Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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