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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

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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Fulton John Sheen
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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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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
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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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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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There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life one is to suit our lives to principles the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.
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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
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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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When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.
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God has given different gifts to different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realized that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.
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Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.
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The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be secured - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.
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