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• The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

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  Civilization, Levels, Term

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• We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

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  Needs, Speech, Revelations

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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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  Crosses, Mary, Savior

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• In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.

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  Love, Couple, Men

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• In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

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  Prayer, Feet, Meditation

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• The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

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  Believe, People, Sick

  "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. 186), 1953.

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• All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

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  Husband, Divine Order, Wife

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• The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.

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  Wisdom, War, Mean

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• Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

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  Inspirational, Children, Should Have

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• When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

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  Eye, Light, Different

  Fulton J. Sheen (2009). “Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen”, p.1, Image

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• No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

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  Beauty, God, Faith

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). “These are the Sacraments”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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• Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

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  Mirrors, People, Kind

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• The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.

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  Hate, Evil, Giving

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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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  Confused, Illumination, Light

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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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  Honor, Riches, Prosperity

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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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  Men, Masters, Given

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.298, Image

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• It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?

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  Atheist, Pain, Hate

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• As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

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  Men, Holy Eucharist, Baptism

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• When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.

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  Believe, Heart, Evil

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• But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

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  Kings, Doors, Public Opinion

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• All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.

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  Blessed, Writing, Creativity

  "Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, 1980.

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• Burning the candle at both ends for God's sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters. Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out.

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  Christian, Hard Work, Exercise

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• A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.

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  Taken, Animal, Men

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.68, Ignatius Press

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• Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

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  Religious, Jesus, Prayer

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• Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

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  Book, Inspire, Life Is

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1955). “WAY TO HAPPY LIVING”

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