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.
FULTON J. SHEENHow 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?
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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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