I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
FULTON J. SHEENWe 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.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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