Fulton J. Sheen Quotes - Page 9

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• The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

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  Ideas, Judgement, Mind

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• The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

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  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

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  Saint, Truth Is, Obedience

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• Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

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  Moving, Order, Grace

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.92, Ignatius Press

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• Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

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  Character, Perfection, Training

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• Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

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  Reality, Mathematics, Relation

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• Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.

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  Morning, Stars, Children

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• Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

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  Temptation, Sin, Invites

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• There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

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  Faith, Spiritual, Planes

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• Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

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  Men, Two, Laughing

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• Everything that is full of life loves change,
  for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

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  Love Life, Goal, Movement

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• Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

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  Love, Happy, Joy

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• Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

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  Loss, Want, Woe

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.275, Image

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• Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.

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  Real, Get Well, Men

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• There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

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  Home, Dresses, World

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• Facts themselves do not give knowledge

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  Giving, Facts

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• Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

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  Receiving, Receptive

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• Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

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  Sins Not, Atheism, Nine

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.24, Ignatius Press

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• Man is incurably curious.

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  Men, Curious

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• The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

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  Culture, Unions, Christ

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• The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

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  Christian, Prayer, Meditation

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.211, Ignatius Press

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• Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

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  Marriage, Joy, Frustrated

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• Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

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  Communism, Aggressive, Species

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• It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

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  Wisdom, Betrayal, Principles

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• The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

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  Bored, Reason

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