It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
FULTON J. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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