The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
FULTON J. SHEENLife is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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