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Science is not wisdom.

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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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As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

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Wisdom, Believe, Long

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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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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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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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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

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Love, Funny, Humor

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.

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Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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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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Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors where he is always confronted with self. Sex does not care about the person, but about the act. The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter.

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Sex, Men, Mirrors

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By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting

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Beautiful, Heart, Mean

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A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

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Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

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Men, Neighbor, Burden

Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.14, Ignatius Press

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The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.

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Wise, Stars, Angel

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The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

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Men, Rights, Law

"Whence Come Wars". Book by Fulton J. Sheen (p. 60), 1940.

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If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith.

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Christian, Two, Wish

Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.215, Ignatius Press

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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

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Children, Play, Silence

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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

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Humble, Humility, Blessing

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The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

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Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

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Daughter, Dirty, Heart

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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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Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

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Saint, Truth Is, Obedience

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Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

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Moving, Order, Grace

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.92, Ignatius Press

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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Book, Rosary, Blind

Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.213, Ignatius Press

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Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

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Character, Perfection, Training

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