Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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151. “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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152. “Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.”

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153. “There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.”

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

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

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156. “One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.”

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157. “It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.”

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158. “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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159. “The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.”

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160. “A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.”

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161. “Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.”

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162. “One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.”

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

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164. “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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165. “Facts themselves do not give knowledge.”

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166. “Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master’s will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.”

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167. “If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.”

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168. “Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

169. “The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.”

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

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171. “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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172. “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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173. “I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.”

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174. “Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.”

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

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176. “As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.”

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177. “The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.”

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178. “By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.”

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179. “God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.”

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180. “The basic reason why erotic experiences outside of marriage create psychological strain is because the void between spirit and flesh is more closely felt.”

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181. “The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.”

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182. “All our anxieties relate to time.”

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183. “If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.”

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184. “The essence of obscenity is the turning of the inner mystery into a jest.”

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185. “George Bernard Shaw once said, “It is a pity that youth has been wasted on the young.” The contrary is true. It is no secret at all that the Good Lord knew that it was better to put the illusions of life at the beginning in order that as we grew closer to eternity, we might the better see the purpose of living.”

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186. “Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”

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187. “Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.”

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188. “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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189. “St. Augustine also states that, in a sense, shame is related to disobedience. Positively, this would mean that when there is perfect obedience to God, there is no shame. This confirms somewhat the spiritual truth that Catholic educators have observed, namely, that as obedience to the law of Christ increases, concupiscence or the passions actually diminish.”

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190. “The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.”

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191. “The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.”

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192. “A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal love from the people it sees, from the books it reads, from its hopes and daydreams, in the fond hope that the eye may one day see the ideal and the hand touch it. Life becomes satisfying the moment the dream is seen walking, and the person appears as the incarnation of all that one loved. The.”

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193. “To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.”

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194. “The lover of God never knows the words “too much.” Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.”

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195. “If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.”

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196. “It is a curious psychological fact that those who make their personal love public, and “dear” one another with saccharine epithets, are very often those who when alone quarrel and fight.”

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197. “Truth never appeals to us unless it is personal.”

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198. “He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation.” Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.”

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199. “Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on their way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”

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200. “In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the rosary – or better still, from caressing the Crucifix at the end of it – is tremendous!”

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