I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
FULTON J. SHEENHow 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?
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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A 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.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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