Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENUnless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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