Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEENThe greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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