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Fulton J. Sheen

" America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Country , Errors , America

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" Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Majority , Principles , Moral

" America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Country , Errors , America

" 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

People , Hate , Catholic

" The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Believe , Honesty , Issues

" Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Prayer , Silence , Talking

" God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us. "

Fulton J. Sheen

God , Doe , Godly

" Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Danger , Civilization , Given

" 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

Civilization , Character , Women

" If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Believe , Ifs , Ends

" Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Freedom , Doe , Mean

" If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy. "

Fulton J. Sheen

God , Religious , Being

" It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees. "

Fulton J. Sheen

Knees , Impossible , Loses

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