Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
FULTON J. SHEENLet those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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