"The mark of the Christian is the willingness……" — Fulton J. Sheen
"The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads"
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166 Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton J. Sheen has 166 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind,…
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More Altar Quotes
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
— Aeschylus
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
— Winston Churchill
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