The 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.
FULTON J. SHEENYou must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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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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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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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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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