Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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