Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow 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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