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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

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Suicide, Morning, Bus

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Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs. Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end.

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Educational, Mean, Views

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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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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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Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

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Attitude, Punishment, Errors

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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

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Men, Doe, Bigs

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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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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

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Frustration, Men, Luxury

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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

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Charity, Given, Left

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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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Friday, Easter, Sunday

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Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

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Inspiration, Adversity, Sunshine

Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.22, Image

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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

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Children, Parent, Heaven

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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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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

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Ifs

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Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

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Taken, Cost, Welcome

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Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

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Happiness, Perfect, Want

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Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders.

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Wise, Religious, Kings

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Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

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Mother, Children, Men

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

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Life, Catholic, Deeds

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (1936). “The Moral Universe”, p.52, Aeterna Press

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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.

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Jesus, Son, Birth

Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.590, Image

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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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Born: May 8, 1895
Died: December 9, 1979
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