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.
FULTON J. SHEENAll worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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