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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Fulton J. Sheen
Age: 84 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 8
Died: 1979
Died: December 9
Catholic Priest
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El Paso
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Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.
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One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
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Facts themselves do not give knowledge
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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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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth the object of the will is goodness or love.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
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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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