The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a — Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a — Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a — Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a — Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a — Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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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, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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