Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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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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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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