The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
FULTON J. SHEENThe Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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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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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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