Thursday, October 21, 2010

Prayers & Reflections for October 21

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER II
Thoughts in War Time


"Why does God not stop this war?"

God could stop this war but the cost of doing so would be the destruction of human freedom. Are we not fighting to defeat dictators? Then why do we ask that God become a dictator?

God will not destroy our freedom because God will not be a dictator.

And that is why God will not stop this war...

[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

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