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Our lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
-Fulton J. Sheen
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Our Lord Did Not Ask Us To

Fulton J. Sheen
Our lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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The lesson for asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a fixed exchange rate, abolish your central bank and adopt a currency board instead. either extreme; a fixed exchange rate through a currency board, but no central bank, or a central bank plus truly floating exchange rates; either of those is a tenable arrangement. but a pegged exchange rate with a central bank is a recipe for trouble.
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Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? that the earth is our mother? what befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. this we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. all things are connected like the blood that unites us all. man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. one thing we know: our god is also your god. the earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
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The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of god in the littleness of a babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of his visitation. he came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the good god could say: 'you give me your humanity, and i will give you my divinity; you give me your time, and i will give you my eternity; you give me your broken heart, and i will give you love; you give me your nothingness, and i will give you my all.
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