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The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. (Fulton J. Sheen)
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love. View quote
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A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy. View quote
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for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you. View quote
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All our anxieties relate to time. View quote
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We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by Faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings. View quote
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By professing no ideal in morality, these nice people can never be accused of not living up to their creed. This is the great advantage that they have over the Christians - whose creed is so lofty that they can often and truly be accused of failing to meet its demands. View quote
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There are no plains in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. Furthermore the pose of indifference is only intellectual. The will must choose. And even though an "indifferent" soul does not positively reject the infinite, the infinite rejects it. View quote
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Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God. View quote
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No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be. View quote
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There is not a single striving or pursuit or yearning of the human heart, even in the midst of the most sensual pleasures, that is not a dim grasping after the Infinite. (Fulton J. Sheen)
Christian theology is, in a certain sense, a psychology, since its primary interest is the soul, the most precious of things. Our Lord balanced a universe against a soul and found the soul worth more than gaining a world. View quote
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The revolt of the modern child against his parents is a miniature of the revolt of the modern world against the memory of 1900 years of Christian culture and the great Hebrew, Grecian and Roman cultures which preceded them. Any respect for that tradition is called "reactionary," with the result that the modern soul has developed a commentator mentality which judges yesterday by today, and today by tomorrow. Nothing is more tragic in an individual who once was wise than to lose his memory, and nothing is more tragic to a civilization than the loss of its tradition. View quote
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There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church - which is, of course, quite a different thing. View quote
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A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. View quote
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[T]here is a tremendous egotism and conceit in those popular articles and lectures entitled,"My Idea of Religion," or "My Idea of God." An individual religion can be as misleading and uninformed as an individual astronomy or an individual mathematics. View quote
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In contrast to the pride of those who deny their guilt to escape self-criticism is the humility of God, who made a world which added not to His glory and then made man to criticize Him. View quote
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[H]e is of the intelligentsia (which means he has been educated beyond his intelligence). View quote
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All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body. View quote
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We find only what we seek: nature has many secrets to give us, but she will not surrender them until we sit down patiently before her and obey her laws. Only by such submission do we receive. View quote
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By denying any ultimate standard outside of self, one can escape all self-blame and go through life on a perpetual mission of face saving. (Fulton J. Sheen)
The very good never believe themselves very good, because they are judging themselves by the Ideal. View quote
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The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them. View quote
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Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. View quote
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Hitler had no need of God: in his own conceit, he was a god. View quote
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