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.
FULTON J. SHEENIf we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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 word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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