Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENA smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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