Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
FULTON J. SHEENSometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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It 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.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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