Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENThere are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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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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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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