Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

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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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Hate, People, Catholic

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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

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Majority Vote, Principles, Moral

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The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

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Honesty, Believe, Issues

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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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Prayer, Talking, Silence

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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

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Godly, Doe, God Love

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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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Country, America, Errors

"A Plea For Intolerance". Essay by Fulton J. Sheen, 1931.

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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

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Believe, Ends, Ifs

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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

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Women, Character, Civilization

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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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Civilization, Danger, Given

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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

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God, Being Yourself, Religious

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.16, Ignatius Press

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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

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Freedom, Mean, Doe

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It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

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Knees, Impossible, Loses

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The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: 'you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.

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Love You, Heart, Humble

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Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment; and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey.

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Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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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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Soul, Religion, Want

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When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.

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Mean, Fronts

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There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

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Unforgivable Sin, Politics, Economy

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Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

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Kings, Pride, Opposites

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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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Faces, Easy, Harder

Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.24, Ignatius Press

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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

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Worry, Atheism, Want

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Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

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Stars, Independent, Men

"Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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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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Inspirational, Life, Patience

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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

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Inspirational, Heartbreak, Faith

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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

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Apples, Evil, Rotten

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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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Joy, Sorrow, Helping

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Born: May 8, 1895
Died: December 9, 1979
Occupation: Televangelist
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