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.
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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Modern 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.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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