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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da30ccc | Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. --RUSSELL H. CONWELL | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| f782b94 | Today, be willing to believe that a companion Spirit is leading you every step of the way, and knows the next step. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| b0583a1 | A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? --JANE WAGNER | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 6ce557c | Love yourself first and everything else falls into line," Lucille Ball advised. "You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| d92aa77 | Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 6d95090 | To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy. | pharisees righteousness sin the-cross | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| a0c2338 | The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to G.. | godlessness goodness love | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| b3c41c9 | The lover of God never knows the words "too much." Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 4c9b20a | One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 6018d30 | As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God's love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life's mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other's inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds a.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| aba56f8 | This figure upon the Cross is not a MVD agent or a Gestapo inquisitor, but a Divine Physician, Who only asks that we bring our wounds to Him in order that He may heal them. If our sins be as scarlet, they shall be washed white as snow, and if they be as red as crimson, they shall be made white as wool. Was it not He Who told us, "I say to you, that even so there shall be more joy in Heaven upon one sinner that doth penance than upon ninety-.. | regeneration repentance | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 6145eab | You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 603de39 | At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners. | Fulton J Sheen | ||
| 4782d6b | A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 7579924 | We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has the future been so utterly unpredictable; we are not so much in a period of transition with belief in progress to push us on, rather we seem to be entering the realm of the unknown, joylessly, disillusioned, and without hope. The whole world seems to be in a state of spiritual widowhood, possessed of the harrowing devastation of one who set o.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d502bc0 | Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 4784310 | One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge... It is too sacred to be profaned. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a7db754 | As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation with God the Father; for He is the only possible Word by which God can address Himself to a world of sinners. | history jesus science | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 98df89e | When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to love Him above parents, to believe in Him even in the face of persecution, to be ready to sacrifice our bodies in order to save our souls in union with Him - to call Him just a good man ignores the facts. No man is good unless he is humble; and humility is a recognition of truth concerning oneself. A man who thinks he is greater than he actu.. | god jesus son-of-god the-messiah | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| df299db | I want men who will believe in Me, even when I do not protect them; I will not open the prison doors where My brethren are locked; I will not stay the murderous Red sickle or the imperial lions of Rome, I will not halt the Red hammer that batters down My tabernacle doors; I want My missionaries and martyrs to love Me in prison and death as I loved them in My own suffering. I never worked any miracles to save Myself! I will work few miracles.. | persecution | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| a92a659 | To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ccef7d9 | The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a296129 | This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ecd8e6d | Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 0cae2b5 | Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good. | good | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 6d1e04c | We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e9c07fc | It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d30087f | The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| acf8fa1 | The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another's unhappiness. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e66e50a | A] young husband with an unfaithful wife, who is consecrated and dedicated to continence, eats daily of the Bread of Life so that the bride may one day return to both the home and the faith. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| c54b79b | What some people love is not a person but the experience of being in love. The first is irreplaceable; the second is not. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| cb2a309 | Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from "moral inhibitions." They forget that it is their own nature and conscience which makes them feel that way. Being unable to drive God from the heavens, they would drive his ambassadors from the earth. In a lesser sphere, that is why many men sneer at virtue--because it makes vice unco.. | christianity conscience morality | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 32fe93d | As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around which revolved the fate of humanity. In Eden, Adam sinned; in Gethsemane, Christ took humanity's sin upon Himself. In Eden, Adam hid himself from God; in Gethsemane, Christ interceded with His Father; in Eden, God sought out Adam in his sin of rebellion; in Gethsemane, the N.. | eden gethsemane god jesus sin | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 0d4798d | Like all great divorces, whether they be marital or epistemological, it had its antecedents in history. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 393bb74 | Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 3dc3f44 | These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission in life for itself than applying the categories of the material to the spiritual, of the physical to the mental, and the spatio-temporal to the eternal. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 7fe5dd8 | Facts themselves do not give knowledge | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| c282e88 | The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the physical theory forgets that it has no such principles of interpretation with its own bosom. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| c1ca248 | If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 027b7ce | Remarriage while the true partner is living is a vain attempt to give respectability to dishonor by invoking a human law that overthrows God's law: | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 04a2adb | Most lost jobs are outsourced to the past. | modernization | Thomas L. Friedman | |
| 8655b16 | Earnshaw is quite a famous name, thanks to Miss Bronte . I did not realise there were Earnshaws in this country." Mrs. Earnshaw gave a sharp nod. "Aye. And Heathcliffs and Eyres, as well. Proper little thieves, those Bronte girls." | deanna-raybourn emily-bronte humor jane-eyre lady-julia-grey meta silent-on-the-moor the-brontes wuthering-heights | Deanna Raybourn | |
| a531884 | Motor-scooter riders with big beards and girl friends who bounce on the back of the scooters and wear their hair long in front of their faces as well as behind, drunks who follow the advice of the Hat Council and are always turned out in hats, but not hats the Council would approve. Mr. Lacey, the locksmith,, shups up his shop for a while and goes to exchange time of day with Mr. Slube at the cigar store. Mr. Koochagian, the tailor, waters .. | Jane Jacobs | ||
| 2ff7296 | I think you'd be much better of marrying ME." "Miss Moore, are you proposing to me?" He affected a shocked tone. | April Lindner |