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.
FULTON J. SHEENWhen 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!
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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Let 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.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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