Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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