Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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 does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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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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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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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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