Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
FULTON J. SHEENLove was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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 live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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