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Us Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
- So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long…
- Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is…
- Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with…
- By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we…
- God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
- Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in…
- Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
- When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with…
- 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...…
- There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not…
- Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who…
- The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones…
- Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.
- When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes…
- We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.…
- Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
- 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…
- Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
- Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a…
- The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
- Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong