Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.

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  Christian, Country, Taken

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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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• Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

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  Humility, Men, Self

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

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  Lying, Believe, Essence

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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

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• It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

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  Believe, Men, Self

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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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• Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

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  Selfish, Love Is, Keys

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.219, Ignatius Press

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• If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

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  Catholic, Church, Today

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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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• Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

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  Mistake, Talking, Same Mistakes

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.171, Ignatius Press

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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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  Confused, Average, Tolerance

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