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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action rather it is timing it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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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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Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.
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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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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.
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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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Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures
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Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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