Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENSatan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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