Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
FULTON J. SHEENLet 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.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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