Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
FULTON J. SHEENSometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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If 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.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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