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• Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

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  Wall, Thinking, Self

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• Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

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  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Faith

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• All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

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  Apples, Evil, Rotten

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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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  Flower, Rights, Light

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.

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  Civilization, Leaving, Soul

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• Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

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  Men, Views, Practice

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• One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice." Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.

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  Wisdom, Men, Rights

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• Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

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  Mean, Hatred, Tolerance

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.502, Image

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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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  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

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  Mistake, Talking, Same Mistakes

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.171, Ignatius Press

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• Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can be saved only by a renovation of the inner man, only by a purging of our hearts and souls; for only by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His Justice will all these other things be added unto us.

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  Heart, Men, Civilization

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• In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

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  Inspiring, Heart, Divorce

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• Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

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  Selfish, Love Is, Keys

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.219, Ignatius Press

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• Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

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  Sin, Satan, Unforgivable

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• It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

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  Prayer, Exercise, Two

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• To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Age, Looks

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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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  Noble, Ifs

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• I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

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  Suffering, Doe, Wonder

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• Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

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  Self, Looks, News

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• The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

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  Atheist, Challenges, Wicked

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.164, Image

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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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  Men, Thinking, Order

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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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  Angel, Thinking, World

  YouTube Channel "FultonJSheen"/"Fulton Sheen - Life is Worth Living "Angels" Part 3", www.youtube.com. December 14, 2007.

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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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  Lying, Men, Deceit

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• Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Giving Up

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