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. SHEENSouls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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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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