Top 250 Fulton J. Sheen Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “Science is not wisdom.”

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102. “Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.”

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103. “A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.”

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104. “Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays are to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes; and the closer it gets to the center, the stronger it becomes.”

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105. “Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.”

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106. “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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107. “When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.”

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108. “The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.”

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109. “Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.”

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110. “Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.”

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111. “Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.”

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112. “Far better it is for you to say: “I am a sinner,” than to say: “I have no need of religion.” The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.”

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113. “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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114. “God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.”

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

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116. “Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.”

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117. “The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.”

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118. “The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another’s unhappiness.”

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119. “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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120. “We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.”

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121. “Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.”

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122. “Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.”

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123. “Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.”

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124. “Man is incurably curious.”

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not as we would like to be in the eyes of the public; not as our press notices say we are, but as we are in the sight of God when we examine our conscience.”

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128. “Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.”

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129. “Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.”

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130. “Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.”

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131. “If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”

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132. “The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.”

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133. “The Rosary is the book of the blind.”

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134. “Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.”

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135. “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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136. “Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.”

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137. “If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary – or he will get the gift of faith.”

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

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139. “Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?”

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140. “No man hates God without first hating himself.”

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141. “She satisfies my ideal.” Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be “love at first sight” is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a dream.”

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142. “Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.”

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143. “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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144. “Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.”

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145. “Atheism is not a doctrine, it is a cry of wrath.”

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146. “Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.”

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147. “How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.”

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148. “Knowing belongs to man’s intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.”

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149. “Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.”

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150. “All love craves unity.”

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