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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5198dd7 | This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| f94b027 | Gardening really has no beginning and no end. In particular, pleasures of the sense of smell really know no seasons," Tovah Martin" | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 7b12eb5 | And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you're not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 5959aa7 | A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 88166c3 | George Bernard Shaw once said, "It is a pity that youth has been wasted on the young." The contrary is true. It is no secret at all that the Good Lord knew that it was better to put the illusions of life at the beginning in order that as we grew closer to eternity, we might the better see the purpose of living." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| eeb5256 | No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with the divine power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one's own self-sufficiency. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 51d134f | there has sprung up a disturbing indifference to truth, and a tendency to regard the useful as the true, and the impractical as the false. The man who can make up his mind when proofs are presented to him is looked upon as a bigot, and the man who ignores proofs and the search for truth is looked upon as broadminded and tolerant. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 68c6d8e | Another evidence of this same disrespect for rational foundations is the general readiness of the modern mind to accept a statement because of the literary way in which it is couched, or because of the popularity of the one who says it, rather than for the reasons behind the statement. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 8de7b99 | The mystery of creativeness is surrounded with awe. A special reverence does envelop the power to be co-creators with God in the making of human life. It is this hidden element that in a special way belongs to God, as does the grace of God in the sacraments. Those who speak of sex alone concentrate on the physical or visible element, forgetting the spiritual or invisible mystery of creativeness. Humans in the sacraments supply the act, the .. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| b2ea8be | Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 3cadd4d | Pope John Paul II, who has a mystique without a politique. He has no armies, no publicity directors, no propaganda machine and comes from the smallest state in all the world. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 3197260 | A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal love from the people it sees, from the books it reads, from its hopes and daydreams, in the fond hope that the eye may one day see the ideal and the hand touch it. Life becomes satisfying the moment the dream is seen walking, and the person appears as the incarnation of all that one loved. The | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| eef7103 | FREUDIANISM interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 92f1ba5 | The melody of her life is played just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f26d989 | Fulton J. Sheen | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 187dae3 | Carnal love, despite its seeming intimacy, often can become an exchange of egotisms. The ego is projected onto the other person and what is loved is not the other person, but the pleasure the other person gives. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e983f9a | As Augustine observed: "Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, so ancient and so new. Late have I loved Thee." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 70cf805 | It is a curious psychological fact that those who make their personal love public, and "dear" one another with saccharine epithets, are very often those who when alone quarrel and fight." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 674165c | The very fact that a man or a woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all, for though sex is replaceable, love is not. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ef9c5ee | In vain will the world seek for equality until it has seen all men through the eyes of faith. Faith teaches that all men, however poor, or ignorant, or crippled, however maimed, ugly, or degraded they may be, all bear within themselves the image of God, and have been bought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. As this truth is forgotten, men are valued only because of what they can do, not because of what they are. | faith | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| a4ce71d | This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ac125fe | Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first H.. | jesus-christ prophecy the-messiah | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| ec430bd | St. Augustine also states that, in a sense, shame is related to disobedience. Positively, this would mean that when there is perfect obedience to God, there is no shame. This confirms somewhat the spiritual truth that Catholic educators have observed, namely, that as obedience to the law of Christ increases, concupiscence or the passions actually diminish. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| cb4537d | To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude. | power skill talent | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 38b13a6 | The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters. | love | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 14948c2 | His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name. | good-works jesus philanthropy | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 34171ae | The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces and satisfied with ideas entirely too superficial, believed in the universal value of a single method. On both side a severe critique must lead each method back to its just limits, and teach them to ask aid of the other methods and manners of approach which, by their convergence, will permit the mind t.. | science | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| c312e96 | The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is needed to explain scientific facts, and that higher knowledge is mathematics. | philosophy science | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| a4fe30a | The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e6f162a | The first part, or the AEsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely, the forms of space and time, which furnish mathematics with their object. AEsthetics thus divorced mathematics from reality, for it makes the condition of mathematics not the real, but a mental form of space and time. | Æsthetics | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 8ec4820 | The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincare, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true than another. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 36f3a10 | Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| cf3d814 | Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of nature is symbolic, and there is no necessary connection between the phenomena and our fictions. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 96c2cba | Even in the realm of pure mathematics, the mathematician may use any set of symbols he desires within any given region of space-time; he may even go so far as to maintain that any one set of symbols fits the scheme as well as any other, but to erect this method into a philosophy and confuse independence of any one special meaning with independence of all meaning is unjustified and unwarranted. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 26bd99b | The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 6845f80 | Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 14694a6 | The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 36c52f1 | Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ad44a97 | Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol? | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d88bd35 | The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a5ba923 | In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| de786ea | Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction from everything except the mental state which prompted the suicide; the biologists abstract from everything except the dying organism; while the physicists are interested in the man, not as mind, or as organism, but as a falling body. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d086112 | For the Angelic Doctor, the reason of conceptual knowledge is just the contrary! It is not his distance from the animal that renders abstraction necessary; it is his distance from God. Abstraction is not a condition of a push from below; it is a result of a fall from above. Abstraction is necessary because our intellect is imperfect. This is the fundamental reason. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 99d83ad | The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature. | Fulton J. Sheen |