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.
FULTON J. SHEENWe 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.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against 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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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