I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
FULTON J. SHEENLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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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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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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