Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

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  People, Use, Remember

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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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• 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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• Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

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  Men, Views, Practice

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• It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

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  Believe, Men, Self

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• There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

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  Good Morning, Two, Morning Inspirational

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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 I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

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  Catholic, Church, Today

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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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• 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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