Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
FULTON J. SHEENNever 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.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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