They love the almighty dollar more than the almighty GOD.

There was no room in the city for HIM to be born (stable) and  
no room in the city for HIM to die. (Calvary)

You will never see a U-haul following behind a hearse.

Refugees from hell should never complain.

They did not believe HIM, why should they believe me?

GOD obeys the priests in the sacraments.

On a warm spring evening thirteen men sat down to supper and the
next day before supper, two of them were dead. (The Last Supper)

Yes but there is something I can do that others cannot do.

God won't let us have the past. It is gone. GOD will not let  
us see the future. All we have is this moment now.

Say "JESUS, I will do it for you" and the mountains will      
level off and closed doors will open.

The dead man in the casket said to the mourner, "As I am now, so you
will be".

You affect millions when you marry. (Generations of offspring)  

Success comes in cans. I can. I will.

Purgatory is the Ellis Island, off the coast of Heaven.

I cannot take a breath without HIM. One day HE will tell me,  
"HERE IS YOUR LAST BREATH."

Each of us is a unique creature. No one who has ever lived    
is exactly like you or me. Isn't that amazing?

The sound of music. It is all around us but we can't hear it  
without this little box (a radio).

The light bulb won't turn on without power and a 'switch'. 
 
What one little match can do. The smallest things can cause   
the biggest problems.

I came in with nothing. I will go out with nothing.

The letters after your name (degree) mean a lot, but it is    
the letters before your name (ST) that count.

Life is a journey and like any journey we must prepare for it.
 
You get only what you give.

Why spend so much time trying to impress people? Why not      
spend a little time trying to impress GOD?

If you do something for GOD, HE will repay you a hundred times over. 
 
Sin lit the fires of hell, closed the gates of Heaven and     
nailed GOD to the Cross.

We can all be a little better than we are.

We take with us only what we send on before us.

Don't protect others from problems. Instead, help them to resolve them. 
    
Greater love hath no man than to give his life for his        
friend, but GOD did. HE gave HIS life for HIS enemies.

Life is one breath at a time.

Once you open the door to error, you cannot close it.

The son of a frog is a frog. The son of a rat is a rat. The  
SON of GOD is GOD.

If death were the end, then every grave would only be a king 
sized ash tray.

HE said, "I Am The Life". They killed life and life conquered death.

Our brain is too small, too puny, too tiny, too finite, too  
limited, to grasp the meaning of eternity.

The Sea of Galilee lives because it gives. The Dead Sea is   
dead because it only takes. (it has no outlet)

Saints were ordinary people who did ordinary things in an    
extraordinary way.

A spark (or word) at the right time can open a closed mind. 
       
We all live under a cloud from time to time. (false accusations) 
         
How can you prove a negative?

The mills of GOD grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine. 

Happiness, the more you give away, the more you have.

Silence does not imply guilt.

Where accuracy fails, beauty falters.

Death makes all people equal.

Greed will never be satisfied.

Whatever dominates your life is lord of your life.

Without HIM, we can be nothing. We can do nothing.

Truth is one. The opposite is error, and error can be sincere and 
earnest, but it is still error and is still wrong.

Atheists and agnostics are sniping at the religious front.

An atheist denies. An agnostic doubts.

Guilt can tell you that something is wrong, like pain.

Souls are our business, not money.

What is inside you is more important than what is outside you. 
   
I have never asked for money. Whenever money is needed, it just comes.

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Be quiet and say nothing and listen to GOD speaking to you.

With HIM, there is nothing we cannot do.

When a person knows he is going to die, he speaks straight and true.

Do not give them the answer. Instead, let them reason it out 
for themselves.

Interest facilitates knowledge.

The telephone repairman with spikes on his feet climbs a pole shaped like
a cross. He is repairing the communications between humans. JESUS is
spiked on the cross to repair communications between GOD and humans.

You see, all that money, and all that power, and all that
fame cannot bring happiness.

We cannot have true happiness in this life without GOD.

This world is not our home.

If you offered a donkey a carrot with one hand and gold in
the other, which hand would the donkey choose?

When GOD made us, HE implanted an intense hunger for HIMSELF in us.

If you could boil your emotions in a pot, the scum left
over would be envy.

Take the motor from the truck and you have a lifeless truck.
Take the soul from the body and you have a lifeless body.

I cannot be responsible for the salvation of any soul but my own.

This world is not where it's at.

What is happening in us is more important than what is
happening to us.

If you let passion get rolling it will pick up fearful momentum.
We must control passion from the start.

If we do not pay close attention to GOD, there could be sudden
death and we end up in the wrong eternity.

Which is in control, the body or the soul?

Our destination is Heaven. Our cargo is our soul.

Children are the most precious and beautiful and helpless creatures
that GOD makes.

They try to change the moral code to fit the times.

Democracy is fine for politics but not for morality.

Children (babies) swallow things, pins, coins, screws. Adults
swallow heresy, cliche's, error, and why not, everyone does it.

Where beauty fails, accuracy limps.

It takes courage and strength to say "I am the captain of my
soul, and not the slippery, slimy, satan".

Ulcers do not come from what we eat, but from what is eating us.

When you are teaching GODS' ways, you will get in trouble for it.

This life is a journey of faith seeking the truth.

Suspicion makes us sour.

Children are sharp observers and imitators.

One day we will all go to the cemetery and not come back.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?

Be stepping stones, not stumbling blocks.

GOD did not make woman from mans' head because he did not want her to be
above him. He did not make her from mans' feet because he did not want her
to be below him. He made her from his side, so she would be equal to 
and always beside him. He used a rib because it was closest to his
heart so he could love her.

Ravaged by virus and bacteria, the littlest things can destroy a marriage.

Love loves a person. Lust craves a body.

It is the same river Jordan that feeds the Sea of Galilee and the Dead
Sea. Why is one alive and the other dead?

The first woman came from man. Ever since then, all men came from woman.

If you are not beautiful, then GOD is not beautiful. Gen 1:27

Sometimes saints stumbled and fell but they immediately got up again.

You are the ones to become saints.

What they (saints) did, we can do.

If we die turned away from GOD, then we are turned away forever.

Why are they called 'poor souls'? It is because they cannot help
themselves. They must depend on you and me.

If we don't do it for them (pray for poor souls), can we depend on
others to pray for us?

Christianity is a way of life that occupies every moment of every
day of our lives.

If the hands that reach out to us from purgatory are hands that we
have touched, then shouldn't we pray for them?

You think you have little talents. You have great talents with GOD.

It is the little things that mean a lot.

A drop of water falls upon a grape vine and the wine from the grape
becomes GOD. That is how water becomes GOD.

The world will end someday but our spirit will last for all eternity.

To do great things a stream of thought must rush through the mind.

We must be burning with fire for GOD.

Why are only some of us focused in on GOD and so many others are not?

In eternity, second best is hell.

There is none so blind as those who don't want to see.

No one is more dead than a dead priest except if it is a dead bishop.

We can make no decision from hearing one side. We need the total picture.

Please do not kick a man when he is down.

You can give someone a hundred dollars a day for 50 years and never
receive a thank you, but miss one day and you will hear about it.

In his passion, man is just a lump of lust.

The infidelities of man are not greater than the fidelities of GOD.

We are as fickle as a feather, blown by every wind of temptation.

Many are on the broad highways to hell.

HE is loving us into existence.

You should treat one another with respect and dignity.

You are the light of CHRIST to the world.

HE is like us in every way but sin.

Our limited minds cannot grasp an unlimited GOD.

The responsibility to teach the children about GOD is on the parents.

Lilies that fester smell worse than weeds.

Man has no valid reason for running away from GOD.

HE lets us free to go to hell if we want to.

GOD pulls us up to HIS level, we do not pull HIM down to ours.

Don't be anxious about the future or the past. We have only now, one
second at a time.

To know everything else and not to know them, (JESUS and MARY) what
does it matter.

My friend,(GOD) who never lets me down, never attacks me.

St Teresa: If a bird is tied by a single string, it cannot fly.

We go on pretending that nothing ever happens. (sins and confession)

Love is not a feeling. Love is in the will.

Sincerity will not change 'error' into 'truth'.

HE said, "I WILL BE WITH YOU UNTIL TIME BE NO MORE".

The moral antibiotic against the bacteria of the sin infected world...

Follow JESUS, see only HIM.

Your prayers will not help someone in hell, and your prayers are not
needed for someone in Heaven, so there must be another place, purgatory.

If I had all the knowledge and all the wealth in the world and no love,
then I am just spinning my wheels.

If you don't love your enemy, it is your loss.

If I hate someone, who am I hurting?

Why don't we vomit out all that spiritual poison?

Are we going around hurting people or helping people?

We love GOD for our sake and others for GODS' sake.

Is it too much to ask to be kind to one another?

I promise and I guarantee, your home will become a suburb of Heaven if
you are kind to one another.

Sin is like a cavity in a tooth. Decay is removed by reconciliation and
the filling is by the Holy Eucharist.

How many exercise the body and forget the soul?

We are like a cigarette lighter with all our passions waiting for a spark.

What is the use of knowing the Bible if you do not know HIM of whom
the Bible is all about?

If you took a plank two feet wide and set it on the floor you could run
up and down it with ease. Now put that same plank up near the ceiling and
you would stumble and fall. You shouldn't be up there. You are out of
place. The ceiling is not your place in life, the floor is.

Listen, listen, listen to HIM.

They saw ONLY JESUS in the Transfiguration. Did you get the message?

People, some saintly and some cynical, touch our lives every day.

See only CHRIST, let everything else melt in the background.

What matters is not the end of the world but the end of us.

People are like clouds, moving here and there with the wind.

There are two kinds of people, one with standards, and the other without.

It is one of the worlds greatest short stories, the prodigal son.

It is an open ended story (prodigal son), we write our own ending.

A Priest is only human and has his faults, but he does the best he can
for GOD.

You are not fooling me. You can't fool GOD. You are only fooling yourself.

It is absolute necessary to keep GOD in focus if we want to live
forever with HIM in eternity.

The loveliest story of them all, is of sinners becoming Saints.

In the restaurant of life, we pick up the check ourselves.

Once you get into something, you have to find your way out.

You have to plant a seed and let GOD make it grow.

You are lucky to be able to count your blessings on your 10 fingers
because some people do not have fingers to count on.

You cannot see growth, only the effects of growth.

You cannot see the wind, only the effects of wind.

You can take a beautiful fountain or a dirty swamp, it is the same water.

You can see others through a piece of glass, but you can see only yourself
when you take silver and cover the glass. (30 pieces of silver, greed)

You can be looking through a glass or looking at a glass. (looking glass)

There is a way of saying these things and no other way will do.

I will take away your hearts of stone and leave you filled with love alone.

There is no beast that can be so cruel as man.

At HIS glance, water blushed into crimson wine. (Cana)

The stone rejected became the cornerstone of the temple.

It was not the Jews that killed HIM, it was our sins.

There are many souls falling into hell with no one to pray for them.

The headstone is ahead of us.

The only way to describe Heaven is to say it is indescribable.

We travel on the rocky road to Heaven with many bumps along the way.

Think as JESUS thinks, love as JESUS loves, serve as JESUS serves.

HE can do all the things of GOD, and all the things of man.

HE got HIS human nature from Mary and HIS divine nature from GOD.

Ask yourself, what would CHRIST think of the things you want to do.

If you are not beautiful, then GOD is not beautiful.

If you don't love yourself, then how can you love your neighbor?

It would be nice if you could see yourself through the eyes of CHRIST.

If you want to build your mansion in Heaven, you have to do it now.

We are locked in time between the past and the future.

At the resurrection, we will have new bodies and old souls.

Our destiny is everlasting life. It is ours if we want it.

HE changed love of law into law of love.

The service is long today (Good Friday), but not longer than HE hung
on the cross.

The most famous highway of them all is a little crooked street in
Jerusalem, the way of the cross.

This narrow street has made many architects laugh and many Saints cry.

Herod could say, "Show me you are no fool by walking on my pool".

One day the roles were reversed and Pilate stood before JESUS.

Jews said HE claimed to be GOD and HE should die. Romans said he claimed
to be a king and HE should die.

As HE carried HIS Cross, the executioner carried the tools of a carpenter,
hammers and nails.

HE cannot not love us.

Why did HE have to suffer so much and die for us? One little tear from
GOD would have been enough.

That is why HE cried (our sins) and that is why HE died.

A little plot of land beneath HIS cross drenched with blood.

"Let the land be divided from the water". HE said it and it happened.

Joshua (Jesus) led the people to the promised land for Moses.

CHRIST came from 'The promised land' to the people.

We follow HIM. There is no one else to follow.

There is a cross for me and a cross for you.

It is the only responsible job I have in this world, saving my soul.

Almighty GOD needed help to carry HIS cross.

HE helps us to carry our cross.

If we don't do it, it does not get done.

On the veil of Veronica, HE painted the tragedy of HIS face.
We paint the tragedy of HIS face on the veil of our soul.

On which side of HIS cross do we hang? On the right side we pray. On the
left side we curse.

One cannot put an unlimited GOD in a limited mind.

Keep to the center with CHRIST. If we are on the peripheral we miss it all.

HE says, "Will you take the hammer and strike another blow"? (sin)

We can nail HIM to the cross anytime.

You should have wipers on the windshields of your minds.

Have I ever cried for destroying GOD with my sins?

GOD gave us a second chance. If we don't take it, we may not get another.

HE came with hands to embrace us but instead they embraced the cross.

A man held a bird in his hand and asked the fool to say if it was alive
or dead. The fool said it was alive so the man crushed it and showed the
fool. If the fool said it was dead, he would open his hand and let it fly
away. He asked a wise man the same question, and the wise man said,
"Son it is all up to you."

There is as much evidence of hell in the Bible as there is for Heaven.

We must love others enough to let them go to hell if they want to.

Some Jews say, the hole for the cross is where the forbidden tree of
Eden was. The tree of death (Eden) became the tree of life.

With immorality all around us we have to live in the midst of it in
this world.

Rapunzel was beautiful and had long hair and lived in a castle. She would
let down her hair out the window so the witch could climb up and visit
and tell her convincingly how ugly she was. One day the Prince came and
climbed up and told her how beautiful she was. Rapunzel found truth and
was saved by the Prince.

Isaiah: "The Prince of peace will come". Our Prince will come to save us.

We must change because GOD doesn't change.

I might foul up and out Judas Judas, or out Herod Herod, or out Pilate
Pilate.

Nicodemas received a transfusion of courage.

How can any creature be worthy of an unlimited GOD?

Glorious and victorious HE will rise.

Let us take out of the tiny tomb of the Tabernacle, the cold body of
CHRIST, and welcome HIM into our warm hearts.

We must be satisfied that there are mysteries that we do not understand.

JESUS is the reason for the season. (Easter)

GOD makes only good people.

You are not made from a mold. You are unique. No one has fingerprints
like yours in all the world. You are one of a kind.

All earthly things are rubbish compared to the things of CHRIST.

Eternity is yours.

You will rise as HE did.

You will have a glorified body as HE has.

You were born for a tremendous destiny.

You are headed toward a tremendous destination.

We are all witnesses, present at Calvary.

HE proved HE was GOD by HIS miracles, prophesies, and resurrection.

You should never stop not having HIM branded on your mind.

I am on my way, going home to the Father.

The last laugh is always the LORDS. HE has an eternity to take care of it.

In a greater or lesser degree, we are all sinners.

Today there is still something empty, the tomb. (CHRIST'S resurrection)

Death is not the end.

Life is to be a continuing story.

The story and glory of Easter.

The banners of hate are dragged along by haters because their fathers
hated.

Bigotry is darkness and cannot live in the light.

After the confession, the priests lips are locked and there is no key to
open them.

What a priest knows from confession, he does not know at all.

The seal of confession has never been violated.

When you go to confession, you are not giving your sins to the priest, but
to CHRIST.

A priest cannot give away what is not his, whether it be his shoes, if he
has a vow of poverty, or your sins he hears in confession.

Anything a priest has heard in confession is not his business.

The patron saint of confession was put in a weighted sack and thrown into
a river where the confessor and confession went down to drown.

If they give you a fish, you have a meal for a day. If they teach you
how to fish, it will last for a lifetime.

We read the last chapter in the Bible and we won.

We are not waiting for HIM. HE is here now.

The seal of confession is absolute secrecy, no exceptions.

If you started making exceptions, where would you stop?

I have to teach the truth for CHRIST.

In the poem by Joyce Kilmer, "But only GOD can make a tree". Only man
can take take a tree and make a cross from that tree.

I have been telling them over and over for years and they still don't get
it. It is as if they were living on another planet. (Fathers teachings)

A little child is magnificent simplicity.

Our little children of St Dominics know more about their religion than
leaders of congregations.

Do not put the lord of the work before the work of the Lord.

Our little children know more about GOD than the mighty ones of the world.

No matter how low they go, they are not beyond the plunging mercy of GOD.

Once you open it a little bit you cannot close it.

Priests risk their lives to protect the seal of confession.

Why does a child cry? Because it has a need that has to be satisfied.

We cannot be always passing on. We have to stop somewhere.

We must be good people, we have too many clever people.

We must remember G.G.G., the Greater Glory of GOD.

You are to be the light of CHRIST in a world of darkness and ignorance.

If somebody did it for you, then you have to do it for somebody else.

It is natural to be selfish and super natural to be otherwise.

We must live as if we were dead to the world.

What you believe is more important than who or what you are.

HE created you to be happy, not sad.

The worlds attitude towards peace is to escape from it.

Be attitude...beatitude.

Lord make me a channel of your peace.

If I bring peace, I will find it there.

My plan is to be a peace maker.

Others say you can't be perfect, but GOD says you must be perfect (Matt 5:48).

A thing is perfect when it does what it is made to do.

Why are so many people angry all the time?

What is so wrong with people on the inside?

If a personal tragedy hits, a wise man learns to live with it.

HE went from the poles of the crib to the planks of the cross.

John Milton wrote some of his best poems after he became blind.

Beethoven wrote some of his best music after he became deaf.

GOD invites us to be Princes of Peace with HIM.

Being at peace will straighten out mountains and open locked doors.

Peace is attained like you climb a mountain, one step at a time.

GOD made you to be a winner, not a loser.

GOD says, "My Peace Is MY Gift To You, Please Accept It."

They went from cowardice to courage at Pentecost.

The door to the human heart has the handle inside.

We go from the spirit of life to the Spirit of GOD.

The cloud is a symbol of GODS' presence.

After HE rose, they looked down and saw only HIS footprints.

HE left us under a cloud.

You cannot lose with HIM.

If I lose my soul, wouldn't it have been better if I had not been born?

How can a person prove he is not dishonest?

HE ascended into Heaven under HIS own power.

Many of the Saints lived under a cloud.

They believed HIS silence gave consent.

HE leaves the book of life open until righteousness prevails and justice 
is done.

They marched through the gates of Heaven and became Saints.

Death is the gateway to new life.

Have you ever wondered what your last words in this life will be?

When there is a plane crash they are always looking for the black box
that contains the last words of the pilot.

Don't be dealing with things you know nothing about (prophesies).

If I deal with prophesy, I do not have to deal with the present.

Prophesy takes me away from CHRIST and prevents me from dealing with HIM.

Like a deflating balloon, the Apostles lost courage.

We have a blood drive going on now for those who want to give what has
been given to them. 

They came from an obscure lake (the fishermen) to the dark stream of
Christianity.

We should treat HIM better, HE deserves it.

Fear became success and fear became courage at Pentecost.

How do you multiply happiness? You give it away.

Persecution, stoning, imprisonment, nothing would stop St Paul but death.

JESUS says, 'Oh how I sigh for Calvary. At least they were involved'. HE
laments the indifference of today.

The world is a 'sticky' place.

People don't have time for Almighty GOD, but they do for the almighty
dollar and they cannot take it with them.

Knowledge, piety...didn't we get these as gifts? What are we doing with 
them?

In Greek, witness and martyr mean the same thing.

In this life, there are days of great sadness and days of great gladness.

You must live every day as if it were your last day.

If we stop it at the beginning, it won't go to the end. (sin)

Judas, the man of greed, JESUS the man of love.

The greatest gift GOD gives us is the Holy Eucharist.

June 1, 1995 marked Fr. Dwyers 7th year at St. Dominics, and June 10th
1995 marked his 33rd year as a priest. (June 10, 1962, Tipperary Ireland.

Compiled by Bob Stanley
March 15, 2008

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