Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
FULTON J. SHEENIt 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.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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