Prayers & Reflections for February 8

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER VI
Encouragement

Why do we feel so disgusted after we have sinned?

For the same reason that we feel pain when we break a bone. Things are not as they ought to be; we have disturbed God's order.

Remorse is the voice of God calling us back again to peace.

The floating bell-buoys on the ocean need no hands to ring them; the restless waves do the work.

So does remorse toll the bells of an uneasy conscience.

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