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.
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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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