If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
FULTON J. SHEENCharity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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