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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Fulton J. Sheen

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Abandonment Aggressive Earth Life Soul
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Average Mindset Person Principle Subject Tolerance
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Evil Freedom Goodness Ignorance Transcendence
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Anxiety Assumption Creation Destiny Fake Freedom People
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Bad Forgiveness Man Religious Sin
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Tax
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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Flower Forest God Light Material Ourselves Production Right Sun Tree
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Faith Live Religion Yourself
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Criticism Ourselves Photograph Thinking Wall
Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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Divine Forever Hands Moments Power Pregnant Yourself
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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Burden Compassionate Light Sorrow Yourself
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Dependent Himself Humble Humility Soul Thankful
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Absence Action Patience Power Principle Right Way
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Charity Measurement Oneself
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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Divine Generosity Hands Love Scars Service Wound

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

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