If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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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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