Prayers & Reflections for October 16

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER I
Clearing Away the Debris

"I have no need of religion."

No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be.

Anarchists have no need of law: they are a law unto themselves. Hitler has no need of God: he is a god - in his own conceit.

The man who never made a mistake has no need of an eraser; the man who never did anything wrong has no need of a Redeemer.

Our Lord Himself has said: "Those who are well have no need of a physician"....

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons