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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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  Jobs, Overcoming, Firsts

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• The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.

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  Links, Firsts, Neighbor

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• The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of private property in many hands. Instead, monopolistic capitalism concentrates productive wealth among a few men, allowing the rest to become a vast proletariat.

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  Wisdom, Men, Hands

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• We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

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  Christian, Weed, Thinking

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• Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.

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  Wisdom, Horse, Responsibility

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• Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.

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  Thinking, Mind, Church

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• His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Expression

  "Life of Christ".

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• The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

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  Exercise, Self, Tyrants

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.284, Image

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• Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

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  Atheist, Intellectual, Behavior

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• Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

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  War, Selfishness, World

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• By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

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  Facts, Mere

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.20, Ignatius Press

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• Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

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  Hair, Doe, Today

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• Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

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  Generosity, Giving

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• Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

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  Children, Buddhism, Son

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.204, Image

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• There is only one thin in the world that is really our own-and that is our will...Our will is ours for all eternity. That is why the most precious gift that one can give is another in his
  will.

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  Giving, World, Eternity

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• Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

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  Wisdom, Responsibility, Two

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• Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

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  Sin, Seriousness

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• A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

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  Men, Justice Of God, May

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• Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.

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  Baseball, Baby, Player

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• Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

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  Soul, Judgment, Reasoning

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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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  Men, Knowing, Reason

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• All love craves unity.

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  Unity, Crave

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.159, Ignatius Press

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• for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

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  Love You, Love Is, Reason

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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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  Angel, Intelligent, Body

  Fulton J. Sheen (2009). “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• All our anxieties relate to time.

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  Anxiety, Relate

  "Lift Up Your Heart". Book by Fulton J. Sheen. Chapter: "Sanctifying the Moment", 1950.

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