"The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited instincts. If they do good, the...

To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy.
~ Fulton J. Sheen ~












To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful m...
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