Fulton J. Sheen: To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from...

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

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frustrated marriage joy

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

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three and-love men

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

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weed christian thinking

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

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inspiration soul faith

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

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bus suicide morning

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

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justice-of-god may men

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

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be-good credit people

for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

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reason love-you love-is

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

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betrayal principles wisdom

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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angel stars wise

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

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punishment evil attitude

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

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life-is inspire book

If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

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determination wisdom men

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

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levels term civilization

There is only one thin in the world that is really our own-and that is our will...Our will is ours for all eternity. That is why the most precious gift that one can give is another in his

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eternity giving world

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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wisdom struggle spiritual

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

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woe want loss

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

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degrade dignity

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

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invites sin temptation

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

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theologian wicked laughter

To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.