God will always answer our prayers; but he will
answer them in his way, and his way will be the way
of perfect love. Often if he answered our prayer,
as we at the moment desire, it would be the worst
thing possible for us, for in our ignorance we often
ask for gifts which would be our ruin.
--William Barclay (1907-1978)
(In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Prayer")
If you walked out of bed today and had a job to go to and a home to come back to and someone there who cares about you, folks, the game is over and you’ve won. -Larry Miller, comedian, close of every show, quoted at
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In journalism, the modern man wants controversy, not truth. -Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979)
_Thinking Life Through_ [1955]
How wrong George Bernard Shaw was when he said that
it is a pity that youth has been wasted on the young. . . .
The good Lord knew it was better to put the illusions
of life at the beginning in order that we might better
discover the purpose of living as we grow closer to
eternity. -Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _On Being Human_ [1982]
One of the penalties of being religious is to be mocked
and ridiculed. If our Lord submitted himself to the
ribald humor of a degenerate Tetrarch, we may be
sure that we, his followers, will not escape.
The more divine a religion is, the more the world
will ridicule you, for the spirit of the world is
the enemy of Christ.
-Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979)
_Characters Of The Passion_ [1946]
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