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Fulton J. Sheen
Age: 84 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 8
Died: 1979
Died: December 9
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As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.
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The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Pride is an admission of weakness it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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To love what is below the human is degradation to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.
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The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.
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There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life one is to suit our lives to principles the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.
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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
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Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
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Man is incurably curious.
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But there was no room at the inn the inn is the gathering place of public opinion so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
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As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
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The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be secured - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things with life, it is because they are reflections of the life of God if there are beings endowed with intellect and will - like men and angels - it's because they are a participation of the Sovereign Intellect which is God.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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