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.
FULTON J. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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