Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

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

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  Knees, Impossible, Loses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Taxation, Want

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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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• Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

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  Satan, Pure

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• 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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  Religious, Blessed, Thinking

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.103, Ignatius Press

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• Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

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  Sin, Satan, Unforgivable

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• Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

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  Mean, Hatred, Tolerance

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.502, Image

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• Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

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  Men, Christian Inspirational, Hiding

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1949). “PEACE OF SOUL”

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• There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."

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  Wisdom, Men, Russia

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• God has given different gifts to different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realized 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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  People, Feelings, Different

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