God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENAll worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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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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