"If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend……" — Fulton J. Sheen
"If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God."
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166 Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let…
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So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am…
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Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our…
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Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen…
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Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded…
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The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in…
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As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born…
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it…
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All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in…
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By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life.…
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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we…
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An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible…
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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon…
— Francis Bacon
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I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes…
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God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of…
— Max Lucado
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth,…
— Tim Conway
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