We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENJudge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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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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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.
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