All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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