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.
FULTON J. SHEENUnless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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.
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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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