Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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