"There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

When 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!
~ Fulton J. Sheen ~












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