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.
FULTON J. SHEENModern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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 was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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