Fulton John Sheen Quotes

Fulton John Sheen (16)

Birth:	8th May, 1895
Death:	9th December, 1979
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Televangelist, Writer

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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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  Topics in God

• 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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  Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

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• Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

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  Tags in Good, Books

• Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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  Topics in Humor, Religion

• Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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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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  Tags in Thought, Every, Account

• Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

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  Tags in Flattery, True

• I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

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  Tags in Feel, Time

• It’s like being a Knight of the Garter. It’s an honor, but it doesn’t hold up anything.

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  Tags in Honor, Anything

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

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  Tags in Secretly, Competition

• The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

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  Tags in Fine, Print

• 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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  Topics in Love, Service

  Tags in Heart, Wounded

• The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proud, Humble

• Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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  Tags in Envy, Mediocrity