Penance Does Not Require Hair Shirts Today;

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?

The Nearer Christ Comes To A Heart, The More It Becomes Conscious Of Its Guilt; It Will Then Either Ask For His Mercy And Find Peace, Or Else It Will Turn Against Him Because It Is Not Yet Ready To Give Up Its Sinfulness. Thus He Will Separate The Good From The Bad, The Wheat From The Chaff. Man's Reaction To This Divine Presence Will Be The Test: Either It Will Call Out All The Opposition Of Egotistic Natures, Or Else Galvanize Them Into A Regeneration And A Resurrection.

One Of The Greatest Disasters That Happened To Modern Civilization Was For Democracy To Inscribe "liberty" On Its Banners Instead Of "justice." Because "liberty" Was Considered The Ideal It Was Not Long Until Some Men Interpreted It As Meaning "freedom From Justice"; Then When Religion And Decent Government Attempted To Bring Them Back To Justice, Organized Into "freedom Groups" They Protested That Their Constitutional And Natural Rights Were Being Violated.

A Man Without God Is Not Like A Cake Without Raisins; He Is Like A Cake Without The Flour And Milk; He Lacks The Essential Ingredients.

If You Do Not Worship God, You Worship Something, And Nine Times Out Of Ten It Will Be Yourself.