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• Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

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  Responsibility, Self, Law

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• There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not exercise human control. They would rate a generous deed as no more praiseworthy than a wink, a crime as no more voluntary than a sneeze. . . Such a philosophy undercuts all human dignity. . . All of us have the power of choice in action at every moment of our lives.

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  Philosophy, Exercise, Choices

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• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

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  Fear, Pride, Competition

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• How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

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  Science, Men, Enemy

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• If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

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  Children, Law, Causes

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• Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

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  Philosophy, Two, Catholic

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• The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Struggle

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• The power of the rosary is beyond description.

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  Rosary, Description, Praying The Rosary

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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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  Loyalty, Two, People

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• Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

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  Love, Recovery, Self

  Fulton J. Sheen (2003). “Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book”, p.73, Sophia Institute Press

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• The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

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  Men, Differences, Giving

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• When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.

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  Blessed, Years, People

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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. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.

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  Christian, Weed, Mean

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• Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

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  Self, Rooms, Needs

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• We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

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  Goal, Definitions, Pure Love

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• A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

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  Men, Cake, Essentials

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• No man hates God without first hating himself.

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  God, Hate, Men

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.15, Ignatius Press

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• Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

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  Love, God, Flames

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1957). “LOVE, MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN”

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• Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

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  Prayer, Men, Doe

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• To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

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  Falling In Love, Mean, Responsibility

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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• The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

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  Monotonous Life, Live For Others, Way

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• A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

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  Evil, Hatred, His Love

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• Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

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  Prayer, Fasting, World

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• Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

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  Prayer, Casting, Relief

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• Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

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  Miracle, Want, Crosses

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