Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.Fulton J. Sheen
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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.Fulton J. Sheen
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There are no plains in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. Furthermore the pose of indifference is only intellectual. The will must choose. And even though an 'indifferent' soul does not positively reject the infinite, the infinite rejects it.Fulton J. Sheen
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We find only what we seek: nature has many secrets to give us, but she will not surrender them until we sit down patiently before her and obey her laws. Only by such submission do we receive.Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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The very good never believe themselves very good, because they are judging themselves by the Ideal.Fulton J. Sheen
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The modern man is no longer a unity, but a confused bundle of complexes and nerves. He is so dissociated, so alienated from himself that he sees himself less as a personality than as a battlefield where a civil war rages between a thousand and one conflicting loyalties. There is no single overall purpose in his life.Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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Before you deny God, ask yourself why you deny Him. Is it because of the way you live? A poem of Arthur Hugh Clough satirized those who wish there was no God because He interferes with their dishonesty, their lawlessness, or their license.Fulton J. Sheen
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The man who has never made a mistake has no need of an eraser; just so the man who has never done anything wrong has no need of a Redeemer.Fulton J. Sheen
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No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be.Fulton J. Sheen
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All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination.Fulton J. Sheen
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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?Fulton J. Sheen
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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All our anxieties relate to time.... The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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There is not a single striving or pursuit or yearning of the human heart, even in the midst of the most sensual pleasures, that is not a dim grasping after the Infinite.Fulton J. Sheen
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It is assumed by many reformers that the principal and major cause of unhappiness is economic insecurity, but this theory forgets that there are economic problems only because men have not solved the problems of their own souls. Economic disorder is a symptom of spiritual disorder.Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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The nobler our loves, the nobler our character. To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.Fulton J. Sheen
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.Fulton J. Sheen
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Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.Fulton J. Sheen
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One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.Fulton J. Sheen
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Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.Fulton J. Sheen
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Christian theology is, in a certain sense, a psychology, since its primary interest is the soul, the most precious of things. Our Lord balanced a universe against a soul and found the soul worth more than gaining a world.Fulton J. Sheen
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We justify want of faith by saying, 'I don't go to church, but I am better than those who do,' as one might say, 'I don't pay taxes or serve the nation, but I am better than those who do.'Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.Fulton J. Sheen
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The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them.Fulton J. Sheen
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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.Fulton J. Sheen
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