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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Fulton J. Sheen
Age: 84 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 8
Died: 1979
Died: December 9
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The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.
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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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Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, Mine, mine. May we be Christ's!
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It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.
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The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
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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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Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
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To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
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The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.
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Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.
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Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
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If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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