006: Revealed Truth

Life Is Worth Living: A Fulton J. Sheen Catholic Podcast

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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"Revealed Truth" by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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0:00.0	Peace be to you.
0:05.0	This universe of ours is a free universe.
0:09.0	It is a universe of character-making, of soul-making.
0:15.0	Almighty God is placed into our hands.
0:22.6	Think of it.
0:28.6	The power to make ourselves saints or devils.
0:31.6	It is up to us.
0:42.8	There are some laws that we cannot disobey, for example, the law of gravitation, certain biological laws like circulation of blood.
0:46.8	But in a moral universe, we are free either to obey the laws of God or to disobey them, just as we are perfectly
0:58.9	free, for example, to obey the laws of health or to disobey them.
1:06.3	What then makes the thing good?
1:09.3	What makes the thing good? What makes a thing bad?
1:14.6	What makes the thing good?
1:18.6	The thing is good when it attains the purpose for which it was made.
1:24.6	I have before me now a stopwatch.
1:30.3	I'm talking to you without any notes that are written out, merely developing ideas that have been given to those who are interested in these ideas for many, many years.
1:47.0	Therefore, I have to have a watch before me in order to decide when I should stop.
1:53.0	Is it a good watch?
1:57.0	How will I know whether it is good?
2:00.0	By asking, what is the purpose of a watch?
2:02.6	The purpose of a watch is to keep time.
2:05.6	Does it keep time? Yes.
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