Fulton J. Sheen Quotes - Page 6

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• Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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  Jealousy, Envy, Catholic

  "Walk with God".

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• Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

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  Heart, Doe, World

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• If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Character

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• Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!

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  Journey, Two, May

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• Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

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  Fall, Soul, Firsts

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• The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

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  Past, Men, Soul

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• Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

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  Generosity, Giving, Catholic

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• Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love - which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition.

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  Giving Up, Practice, Perfect

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• The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.

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  Giving Up, Heart, Men

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.36, Image

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• To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

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  Boys, Meditation, Doe

  Fulton J. Sheen (2004). “The Priest Is Not His Own”, p.69, Ignatius Press

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• Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

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  Hands, Forever, Purpose

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.185, Ignatius Press

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• A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

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  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

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  Sex, Modern, Subjects

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• I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

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  Four, Pay, Mark

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• Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy man's freedom or to deny his personality. But Communism does. Denying God, it reduces man to a robot.

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  Men, Civilization, Personality

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• Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

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  Struggle, Fighting, America

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• Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

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  Love, Moving On, Heart

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• The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to "rule over the earth"; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.

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  Sympathy, Sacrifice, Men

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.83, Ignatius Press

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• Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

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  People, Mind, Credit

  "Seven Words to the Cross: A Lenten Study for Adults". Book by J. Ellsworth Kalas (p. 93), 1979.

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• The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

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  Winning, People, Life And Death

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• There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.

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  Squares, Feet, San Francisco

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• Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

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  Hands, Soul, Acquisition

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• Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness.

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  War, Adversity, Self

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• A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the "slave state" disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.

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  Wisdom, Responsibility, Flirting

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• The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

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  Civilization, Levels, Term

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