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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

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Fulton J. Sheen
Age: 84 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 8
Died: 1979
Died: December 9
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Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.
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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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.
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It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.
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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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Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
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At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.
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Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey.
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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.
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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.
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Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
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There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do
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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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Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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