Fulton J. Sheen Quotes - Page 4

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• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

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  Attitude, Punishment, Errors

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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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• The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

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  Atheist, Challenges, Wicked

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.164, Image

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

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  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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• 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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  Frustration, Men, Luxury

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• When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

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  Children, Parent, Heaven

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• If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

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  Ifs

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• It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

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  Loyalty, Two, People

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• Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

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  Mother, Children, Men

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• When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

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  Pride, Self, Personality

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• Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

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  Happiness, Perfect, Want

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• Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

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  Love, God, Flames

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1957). “LOVE, MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN”

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• Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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  Friday, Easter, Sunday

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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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• Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

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  Miracle, Want, Crosses

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  Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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  Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

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• Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

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  Judging, Catholic, Church

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• 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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  Jesus, Son, Birth

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.590, Image

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• Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders.

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  Wise, Religious, Kings

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• Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

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  Charity, Given, Left

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• Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

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  Taken, Cost, Welcome

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• No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

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  Men, Doe, Bigs

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• Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

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  Love, Recovery, Self

  Fulton J. Sheen (2003). “Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book”, p.73, Sophia Institute Press

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• The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

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  Men, Differences, Giving

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• When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.

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  Blessed, Years, People

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