All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
FULTON J. SHEENA smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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