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All our anxieties relate to time. ... The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.
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"Sanctifying the Moment" in Lift Up Your Heart (1950)

 

Fulton J. Sheen

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