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.
FULTON J. SHEENA Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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