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Fulton J. Sheen  Quotes
Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

—Fulton J. Sheen

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Suffering
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The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till...

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CatholicCooperationFreedom
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Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see His purpose in it all. Maybe his children are being persecuted...

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

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CharacterLove
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Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother’s love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one...

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LifeMotherhoodSelflessness
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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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CatholicismChristianityDemocracy
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Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals; poetry does not come from donkeys; international peace does not come from wars;...

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CreationGodScience
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The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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BusinessLaw
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Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world,...

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BuddhaBuddhismEthics
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The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is...

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MathematicsPhilosophyScience
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Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, “Do it again”; and every evening to the moon and the stars, “Do it again”; and every springtime to...

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BornGod
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A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and...

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CalvaryChristForgiveness
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The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must...

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DoubtEvilGod
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Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you” (Matt. 5:44). Such love can be achieved only if we deliberately curb our fallen nature’s animosities.

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LoveTolerance
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Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a curiosity, is now a component part of some of the governments of the world. Once men quarreled because...

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AtheismChristianityWars-Of-Religion
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He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies and fakers who would say that they...

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ChristChristianityJesus
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

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Is it I, Lord” (Matt. 26:22).

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ChristianityExamination-Of-ConscienceGuilt
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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...

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CatholicismChildbirthChristianity
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Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God...

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JudasLiberalismMoney
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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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ForgivenessGodGrace
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

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CharityGivingSelf-Sacrifice
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We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we...

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God
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As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around which revolved the...

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Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

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AtheismImmoralityScepticism
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

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BroadmindednessIndifferenceTolerance
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

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Gender-StereotypesLoveMen-And-Women
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The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular...

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ChristianityDemocracyJesus
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It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then He would have been only a great teacher and a great...

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JesusRedemptionSalvation
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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...

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Grace
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morbid.

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GuiltPersonal-Responsibility
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

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CatholicismChristianityCommunism
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Love itself starts with the desire for something good.

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Love
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Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

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HeartsHumansThe-World
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It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

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TeachingWriting
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All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity...

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As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes this longing; we are all kings in exile, miserable without the Infinite. Those...

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Atheism
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The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.

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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from “moral inhibitions.” They forget that...

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CatholicChristianityConscience
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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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CalvaryJesusThe-Cross
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Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him – thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud...

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GodHumilityIntellectuals
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Let us eat and make merry: because this my son was dead and is come to life again; was lost and is found” (Luke 15:23, 24)? Why is there more joy in Heaven for the...

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Jesus-ChristRegenerationRepentance
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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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CatholicismChristianityPhilosophy
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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man...

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MenWomen
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Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic...

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AfflictionHardshipSuffering
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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure...

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LoveSacrificeSelf-Giving
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A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does...

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KnowledgeStudentsTeacher
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Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but Himself. It was His Person around which His teaching centered; not His teaching...

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ChristGodJesus
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