Fulton J. Sheen Short Quotes

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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

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Discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

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Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

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A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

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Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

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Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.

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

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

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Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

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

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

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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

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To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

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

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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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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

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

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

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

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

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Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

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The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

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

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