Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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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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No man hates God without first hating himself.
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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
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If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things with life, it is because they are reflections of the life of God; if there are beings endowed with intellect and will - like men and angels - it's because they are a participation of the Sovereign Intellect which is God.
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Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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There is a tremendous egotism and conceit in those popular articles and lectures entitled,'My Idea of Religion,' or 'My Idea of God.' An individual religion can be as misleading and uninformed as an individual astronomy or an individual mathematics.
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There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church - which is, of course, quite a different thing.
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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
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Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.
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By professing no ideal in morality, these nice people can never be accused of not living up to their creed. This is the great advantage that they have over the Christians - whose creed is so lofty that they can often and truly be accused of failing to meet its demands.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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Since a week ago last Saturday, we can no longer expect them to defend the law of God. These sects will work out the very logic of their ways, and in 50 or 100 years there will be only the Catholic Church and paganism. We will be left to fight the battle alone, and we will.'
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Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
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In contrast to the pride of those who deny their guilt to escape self-criticism is the humility of God, who made a world which added not to His glory and then made man to criticize Him.
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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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The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
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By denying any ultimate standard outside of self, one can escape all self-blame and go through life on a perpetual mission of face saving.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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He is of the intelligentsia (which means he has been educated beyond his intelligence).