If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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