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  1. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Cries of Jesus From the

    Sin is self-mutilation, the destruction of personality - when it takes the form of pride, it crowns Goodness with thorns; when it takes the form of dishonesty, it nails hands to a Cross; when it takes the form of hate, it blasphemes the dying; when it takes the form of lust, it crucifies.
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  2. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Seven Last Words

    One can well believe that a crown of thorns, and that steel nails were less terrible to the flesh of our Savior than our modern indifference which neither scorns nor prays to the Heart of Christ.
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  3. Fulton J. Sheen _ Life of Christ

    Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.
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  4. Fulton J. Sheen _ Three to Get Married

    A man who makes himself a godmust hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked. But God can become a childand talk in parables and never lose His Divinity."
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  5. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Cries of Jesus From the

    The most current philosophy of life is self-expressionism: "Let yourself go"; "Do whatever you please." Any suggestion of restraining errant impulses is called a masochistic survival of the dark ages. The truth is that the only really self-expressive people in the world are in the insane asylum. They have absolutely no inhibitions, no conventions, and no codes. They are as self-expressive as hell, i.e., in complete disorder.
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  6. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Cries of Jesus From the

    Make this experiment whether you believe in God or not. At your first opportunity, stop in a Catholic Church for a visit. You need not believe, as we Catholics do, that Our Lord is really and truly present in the tabernacle. But just sit there for an hour, and within that hour you will experience a surpassing peace the like of which you never before enjoyed in your life. You will ask yourself as a sensationalist once asked me when we made an all-night vigil of adoration in the Basilica of Sacre Coeur in Paris: "What is it that is in that church?" Without voice or argument or thundering demands, you will have an awareness of something before which your spirit trembles - a sense of the Divine.
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  7. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Cries of Jesus From the

    You can justify your refusal to come to God because of scandals. So did the soldiers. It was an awful scandal that Christ the Son of God should swing impotent from a peg.
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  8. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Cries of Jesus From the

    Three common criminals in the eyes of Roman law carry their crosses up a hill. One of them Our Savior forgives and rescues him into paradise. It was so undramatic. In fact, it was boring. So the soldiers took dice and sat down and shook them to see who would have His garments. There, within a stone's throw of them - was being enacted the tremendous drama of redemption, and they only sat and gambled. All life is a gamble, as we only know it! Some throw dice and play for such small stakes, such as garments and wealth; others throw a life and play for the stake of eternal salvation. But it was so undramatic! They missed their play and lost! But the man on the Cross was saying His cause had won. "It is finished.
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  9. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Cries of Jesus From the

    Sensationalists miss divinity for just that reason: the true religion is always unspectacular. The foolish virgins go to buy oil for their lamps, and when they come back, they find the Bridegroom already returned. And the door closed. It was so undramatic. A beautiful maiden knocks at the door of an inn, and an innkeeper tells her there is no room. Into a stable she enters, and there a child is born. It was God's entrance into the world. But it was so undramatic.
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  10. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Cries of Jesus From the

    Their mockery is something like we hear today. "Germany prays to God; America prays to God; England prays to God: On whose side is God?" The implication being that God must necessarily be a geographical Deity restricted to one people, one race, and one nation. The answer to that taunt is, of course, that if we prayed as we should, we would all be on the same side because the perfect prayer is: "Thy will be done.
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  11. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Cries of Jesus From the

    Why is it that the lover of horror cannot stand the sight of the crucifix? Why is it that the fanatics of murder stories are so cold to the story of the world's greatest sacrifice? The answer is that, unlike all other crimes, the crucifix accuses us.
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  12. Fulton J. Sheen _ Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road

    Those who call black black and white white are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.
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