Fulton J. Sheen Quotes - Page 7

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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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• We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

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  Needs, Speech, Revelations

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• Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

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  Inspirational, Children, Should Have

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• When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

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  Eye, Light, Different

  Fulton J. Sheen (2009). “Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen”, p.1, Image

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• No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

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  Beauty, God, Faith

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). “These are the Sacraments”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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• Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

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  Love, Life, Attitude

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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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• When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

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  Confused, Illumination, Light

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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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• But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

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  Kings, Doors, Public Opinion

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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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• As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

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  Men, Holy Eucharist, Baptism

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• Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

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  Mirrors, People, Kind

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• Burning the candle at both ends for God's sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters. Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out.

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  Christian, Hard Work, Exercise

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• The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.

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  Hate, Evil, Giving

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• All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.

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  Blessed, Writing, Creativity

  "Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, 1980.

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• The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

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  Believe, People, Sick

  "Life Is Worth Living". TV Series (1952-1957); transcript was later published in Fulton J. Sheen "Life is Worth Living: First and Second Series" (Second Series, p. 186), 1953.

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• So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

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  Hate, Ignorance, Long

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• Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

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  Wall, Devil, Resistance

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• Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

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  Temptation, Speak, Incline

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• You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

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  Moving, Angel, Worry

  YouTube Channel "FultonJSheen"/"Fulton Sheen - Life is Worth Living "Angels" Part 3", www.youtube.com. December 14, 2007.

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• Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

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  Unhappy, Trying, Depth

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• Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

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  Honor, Riches, Prosperity

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• Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

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  Religious, Jesus, Prayer

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• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

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  Attitude, Punishment, Evil

  "A Plea For Intolerance". Essay by Fulton J. Sheen, 1931.

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