Bishop Fulton Sheen
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Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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Evil will have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.
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The only thing that matters on this earthly life is if we are doing the will of God.
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If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness.
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Atheism is not a doctrine, it is a cry of wrath.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.
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The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil.
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If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.
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In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living
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We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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The son of God chose Peter, who knew sin, rather than the beloved John, as the rock upon which to build His Church, that sinners and the weak might never have excuse to despair.
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Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up our Lord for any earthly thing sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer wanted it.
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America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos.
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Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
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I am worried about America! I am not so much worried about its politics and economics, important though they be: I am worried about its soul.
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The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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The Cross had asked: Why does God permit evil and sin to nail Justice to a tree? The Resurrection answered: That sin, having done its worst, might exhaust itself and thus be overcome by Love that is stronger than either sin or death.
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America is suffering not so much from intolerance, which is bigotry, as it is from tolerance, which is indifference to truth and error, and a philosophical nonchalance that has been interpreted as broad-mindedness.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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One would not generally put garbage into the stomach, but too often one will put garbage into the mind.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
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You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us.
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You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God
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The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ.
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Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up our Lord for any earthly thing sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer want it.
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America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
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There are two births of Christ, one unto the world in Bethlehem; the other in the soul, when it is spiritually reborn.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Devotion to the Mother of our Lord in no way detracts from the adoration of her Divine Son. The brightness of the moon does not detract from the brilliance of the sun, but rather bespeaks its brilliance.
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The more rich a soul is on the inside, the less need it has of luxuries on the outside.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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!
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up our Lord for any earthly thing sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer want it.
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Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.
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The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.
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The son of God chose Peter, who knew sin, rather than the beloved John, as the rock upon which to build His Church, that sinners and the weak might never have excuse to despair.
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A priest is someone who brings Jesus to the people, and in turn brings the people to Jesus
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Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.
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It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.
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Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
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If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul.
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The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.
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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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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God.
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No normal mind yet has ever been overcome by worries or fears who was faithful to the Rosary. You will be surprised how you can climb out of your worries, bead by bead, up to the very throne of the Heart of Love Itself.
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Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.
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When we say the Rosary, we are saying to God, the Trinity, to the Incarnate Saviour, to the Blessed Mother: “I love You, I love You, I love you.”
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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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Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness
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Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host
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It was Jesus Christ who suffered under Pontius Pilate; it was not Pontius Pilate who suffered under Jesus Christ. The grave danger today is not religion in politics but politics in religion.
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What happened on that Good Friday morning was that through propagandists the people became the masses. A democracy with a conscience became a mobocracy with power. When a democracy loses its moral sense, it can vote itself right out of democracy.
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Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
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Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
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He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.
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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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The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn.
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The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.
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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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