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  • #1
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Patience is power.
    Patience is not an absence of action;
    rather it is "timing"
    it waits on the right time to act,
    for the right principles
    and in the right way.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #2
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

  • #3
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #4
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #5
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “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.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #6
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

  • #7
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #8
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
    Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

  • #9
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “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.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

  • #10
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “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.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

  • #11
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #12
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “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

  • #13
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.”
    Fulton Sheen, The Quotable Fulton Sheen: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom, and Satire of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

  • #14
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

  • #15
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “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.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

  • #16
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living



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