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!
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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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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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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