Top 100 Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
#1. 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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#2. The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.
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#3. Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.
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#4. The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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#5. 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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#6. There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do
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#7. One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
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#8. America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
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#9. It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.
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#10. If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little "kinks".
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#11. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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#12. Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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#13. A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.
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#14. The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.
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#15. Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God
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#16. This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.
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#17. 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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#18. So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.
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#19. I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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#20. Here is the answer to the riddle of love. Love implies relation. If lived in isolation, it becomes selfishness; if absorbed in collectivity, it loses its personality and, therefore, the right to love.
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#22. Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.
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#23. It is a curious psychological fact that those who make their personal love public, and "dear" one another with saccharine epithets, are very often those who when alone quarrel and fight.
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#25. Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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#26. What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.
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#27. Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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#28. As the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.
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#29. The pure in heart shall see God, because they always do His will. Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure.
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#30. Discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-
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#31. There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.
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#32. Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
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#33. Carnal love, despite its seeming intimacy, often can become an exchange of egotisms. The ego is projected onto the other person and what is loved is not the other person, but the pleasure the other person gives.
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#34. Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
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#35. As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
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#36. Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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#37. These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission in life for itself than applying the categories of the material to the spiritual, of the physical to the mental, and the spatio-temporal to the eternal.
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#38. Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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#39. Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
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#40. Three dominant evils prevailed - clerical concubinage, simony
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#41. It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself.
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#42. God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.
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#43. To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.
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#44. Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.
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#45. 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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#46. Like all great divorces, whether they be marital or epistemological, it had its antecedents in history.
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#47. Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
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#48. Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
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#49. The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.
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#50. Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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#51. It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.
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#52. There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.
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#53. Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys. To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at the end; it is that which influences every moment of the now.
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#54. To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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#55. As in Eden there took place the first espousals of man and woman, so, in her, there took place the first espousals of God and man, eternity and time, omnipotence and bonds. In
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#56. Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
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#57. Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.
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#58. Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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#59. If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.
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#60. the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license,
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#61. If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.
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#62. There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."
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#63. Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.
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#64. We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.
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#65. The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.
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#66. This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.
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#67. Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
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#68. The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.
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#69. In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.
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#70. Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.
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#71. Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: "God loves me!" And then add: "And I will try to love Him!
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#72. libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.
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#73. The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads
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#74. It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake.
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#76. God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.
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#77. You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God.
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#78. The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.
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#79. There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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#80. Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.
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#82. When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.
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#84. If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.
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#85. Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
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#86. Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.
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#87. One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.
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#88. Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.
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#89. Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.
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#90. Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction.
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#91. The physical theory suffers from the same affect as humanism; it attempts to live on its own fat and breathe the very air which it has already exhaled from its scientific lungs.
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#92. God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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#93. Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called "modern" ideas are really old errors with new labels.
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#94. We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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#95. The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars
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#96. In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.
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#97. 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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#98. He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation." Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.
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#99. Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose ... Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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#100. It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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