Top 250 Fulton J. Sheen Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?”

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152. “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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153. “No man hates God without first hating himself.”

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

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

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

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158. “It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.”

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159. “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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160. “Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.”

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161. “Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.”

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

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164. “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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165. “Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.”

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166. “Carnal love, despite its seeming intimacy, often can become an exchange of egotisms. The ego is projected onto the other person and what is loved is not the other person, but the pleasure the other person gives.”

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167. “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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168. “A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.”

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

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170. “Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.”

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171. “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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172. “Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.”

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173. “Facts themselves do not give knowledge.”

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174. “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.”

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

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176. “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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177. “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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178. “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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179. “Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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189. “Another evidence of this same disrespect for rational foundations is the general readiness of the modern mind to accept a statement because of the literary way in which it is couched, or because of the popularity of the one who says it, rather than for the reasons behind the statement.”

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190. “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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191. “Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism.”

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

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193. “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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194. “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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195. “Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.”

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196. “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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197. “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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198. “Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”

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199. “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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200. “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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