God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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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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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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