No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
FULTON J. SHEENYou must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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 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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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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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