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• The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.

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  War, Thinking, Rights

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• Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

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  Kings, Pride, Opposites

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• The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not whether blood will have to be shed we know not whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.

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  Brother, Truth, Blood

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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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• If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Nine, Worship

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.16, Ignatius Press

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

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  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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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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• 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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  Pride, Self, Personality

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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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• Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

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  Judging, Catholic, Church

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• The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

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  Faith, Drama, Book

  "The World's First Love".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."

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  Wisdom, Men, Russia

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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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• The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Taxation, Want

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• The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self.

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  Sex, Hate, Ignorance

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

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  Worry, Atheism, Want

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  Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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  Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

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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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• Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

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  Men, Finals, Logic

  "Life Is Worth Living". TV Series (1952-1957); transcript was later published in Fulton J. Sheen "Life is Worth Living: First and Second Series" (Second Series, p. 122), 1953.

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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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• Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

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  Friends, Book, Ideas

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