Top 250 Fulton J. Sheen Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “Truth never appeals to us unless it is personal.”

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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.”

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209. “It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than psychologists have.”

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210. “Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.”

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211. “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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212. “The melody of her life is played just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization.”

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213. “Pope John Paul II, who has a mystique without a politique. He has no armies, no publicity directors, no propaganda machine and comes from the smallest state in all the world.”

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214. “In vain will the world seek for equality until it has seen all men through the eyes of faith. Faith teaches that all men, however poor, or ignorant, or crippled, however maimed, ugly, or degraded they may be, all bear within themselves the image of God, and have been bought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. As this truth is forgotten, men are valued only because of what they can do, not because of what they are.”

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215. “As the “no” of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well.”

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216. “When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.”

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217. “Remarriage while the true partner is living is a vain attempt to give respectability to dishonor by invoking a human law that overthrows God’s law:.”

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218. “These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.”

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219. “Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called “modern” ideas are really old errors with new labels.”

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220. “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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221. “The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.”

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222. “No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency.”

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223. “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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224. “It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake.”

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225. “Love itself starts with the desire for something good.”

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226. “A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked.”

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227. “Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent.”

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228. “She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers – she is the world’s first love.”

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229. “The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.”

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230. “Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.”

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231. “As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation with God the Father; for He is the only possible Word by which God can address Himself to a world of sinners.”

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232. “As Augustine observed: “Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, so ancient and so new. Late have I loved Thee.”

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233. “Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it. It does penance for the sins of others, but it is not broadminded about sin. Real love involves real hatred: whoever has lost the power of moral indignation and the urge to drive the sellers from the temples has also lost a living, fervent love of Truth.”

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234. “One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity.”

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235. “What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.”

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236. “The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.”

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237. “The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.”

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238. “Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.”

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239. “What some people love is not a person but the experience of being in love. The first is irreplaceable; the second is not.”

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240. “As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God’s love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life’s mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other’s inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds and hearts in the ways of God;.”

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241. “In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.”

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242. “The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.”

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243. “The pure in heart shall see God, because they always do His will. Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure.”

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244. “Celibacy is like poetry keeping the idea ever in mind like a dream; but marriage uses chisel and brush, concentrating more on marble and canvas. Celibacy jumps to a conclusion like an intuition; marriage, like reason, labors through ebb and flow, step by step.”

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245. “The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.”

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246. “We live in days of assassins’ – where evil is sought in lives more than good to justify a world with a bad conscience.”

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247. “Let no one think he can be totally indifferent to God in this life and suddenly develop a capacity for Him at the moment of death.”

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248. “One would not generally put garbage into the stomach, but too often one will put garbage into the mind.”

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249. “In divorce cases, this is called “mental torture” or “domination.” Really, it is egocentricity, in which one ego loves itself in the other ego. The I is projected into the Thou and is loved in the Thou. The Thou is not really loved as a person; it is only used as a means to the pleasure of the I. As soon as the other ceases to exhilarate, the so-called love ceases.”

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250. “Repentance is not concerned with consequences. This is what distinguishes it from remorse, which is inspired principally by fear of unpleasant consequences.”

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