A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
FULTON J. SHEENHumility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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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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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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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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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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Let 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.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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