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. SHEENCivilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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