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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.
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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In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
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The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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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.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
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...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-
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By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.
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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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The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
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Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness.
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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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When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive if we die to pride, service comes alive if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive if we die to anger, love comes alive.
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All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.
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