Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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