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Fish Tales: Blessed Fulton Sheen’s Words

Throughout Bishop Sheen’s long career as a public speaker, he imparted much wisdom. These are a few of his famous quotes.

“When you pray, do not do all the talking! Listen! We are impolite when we pray, chattering and mumbling all the time but never giving God a chance to get a word in edgewise.”

“God will not save our skin, but He will do everything to save our souls.”

“Like a piece of iron to the magnet, I was drawn to [the Blessed Virgin Mary] before I knew her, but never drawn to her without Christ.”

“There is always hope for the man who knows that he is doing wrong, but there is no hope for the man who, in doing wrong, calls the wrong right.”