QUOTES by Fulton J. Sheen
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"Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals."
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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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"When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself."
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"What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil."
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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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"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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"When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat."
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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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"Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action."
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"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."
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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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"Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad."
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"It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced."
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"Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others."
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"Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love."
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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 of the soul and Christ in communion."
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"A woman never tells you why she loves; she just "tells "you how she loves."
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"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."
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"Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty."
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"There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!"
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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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"The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society."
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"Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts."
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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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"A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy."
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"Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?"
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"We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble."
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"When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!"
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"Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed."
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"A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults."
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"To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful."
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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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"You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people."
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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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"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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"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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