Fulton J. Sheen quotes on spirituality

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

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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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He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies and fakers who would say that they could not join the Church because His Church was not holy enough, He would ask, 'How holy must the Church be before you will enter into it?' If the Church were as holy as they wanted it to be, they would never be allowed into it! In every other religion under the sun, in every Eastern religion from Buddhism to Confucianism, there must always be some purification before one can commune with God. But Our Blessed Lord brought a religion where the admission of sin is the condition of coming to Him. 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.

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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

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The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

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