Bishop Fulton Sheen @Bishop_Sheen

Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen: TV personality, radio host, theologian, author, Emmy award winner, humble servant of Christ and His Church. United States Joined February 2020

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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small

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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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The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

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How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.

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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

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

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Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us

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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

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Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior

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

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a month ago

Unless there is a Good Friday in our lives, there will never be an Easter Sunday. The Cross is the condition of the empty tomb, and the crown of thorns is the preface to the halo of light.

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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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The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

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Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

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In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

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a month ago

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

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a month ago

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.