Fulton J. Sheen Quotes - Page 3

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• Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God forces. We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.

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  Wisdom, Party, Men

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• A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

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  Suicide, Morning, Bus

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

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  Satan, Pure

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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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• To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Age, Looks

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• Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

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  Wisdom, Stress, People

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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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• 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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  Self, Looks, News

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• One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice." Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.

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  Wisdom, Men, Rights

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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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• Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

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  Humility, Humble, Pride

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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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  Christian, Spiritual, Order

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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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• If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

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  Flower, Rights, Light

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• A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

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  Lying, Men, Deceit

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• If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Nine, Worship

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

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• Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

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  Wall, Thinking, Self

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• 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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  Inspiring, Heart, Divorce

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• The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

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  Faith, Drama, Book

  "The World's First Love".

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• Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

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  Friends, Book, Ideas

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• There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

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  Men, Thinking, Order

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• Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Giving Up

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• How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

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  Science, Men, Enemy

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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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  Differences, Evil, Denial

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