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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5c088a3 | For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d2e34cf | I was a forward, and one of the obligations of a forward is to score goals. | Alfredo Di Stéfano | ||
| 0c3ebdf | Character is to some extent judged by what a man does with his falls. A pig falls into the mud and stays there; a sheep falls in and climbs out. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e8fedf6 | We know nothing about the inside of our neighbor's heart, and hence, we refuse to forgive. Jesus knew the heart inside out, and because He did know, He forgave. Take any scene of action, let five people look upon it, and you will get five different stories of what happened. No one of them sees all sides. Our Lord does, and that is why He forgives. Why is it that we can find excuses for our anger against our neighbor, yet we refuse to admit .. | Venerable Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 2aeee06 | In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness. Lest our conscience should carry on with us an unbearable repartee, we drown out its voice in amusements, distractions, and noise. If we met ourselves in others, we would hate them. | Venerable Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d4fcfbb | Truth does grow, but it grows homogeneously, like an acorn into an oak; it does not swing in the breeze, like a weathercock. The leopard does not change his spots nor the Ethiopian his skin, though the leopard be put in bars or the Ethiopian in pink tights. The nature of certain things is fixed, and none more so than the nature of truth. Truth may be contradicted a thousand times, but that only proves that it is strong enough to survive a t.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a17ffa9 | purifying | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a6fe5c3 | the very permanence of marriage is destructive of those fleeting infatuations, which are born with the moment and die with it; it destroys selfishness, furthermore, because the mutual love of husband and wife takes them out of themselves into the incarnation of their mutual love, their other selves, their children; and finally it narrows selfishness because the rearing of children demands sacrifice, without which, like unwatered flowers, th.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 70b78f9 | When the "deity" of the other is deflated, either because it is exhausted or because one becomes accustomed to living with a "god" or a "goddess," there is a terrific sense of ennui and boredom." -- | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| cfc56b5 | Sanctity means separation from the spirit of the world, with immersion in the activity of the world. Saints would be in the world, not of it; they would have no public relation boosters to publicize them; they would never ask for money; perhaps the one venture which would stand out most in their lives would be poverty of spirit. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 0a7063e | If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer. But our greatest need was forgiveness of sins, so God sent us a Savior. Jesus Christ is the source and summit of our life. (Venerable .. | Terry Barber | ||
| 93180a8 | greatest poverty of all--the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God: | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 1f315b7 | We live in days of assassins'--where evil is sought in lives more than good to justify a world with a bad conscience. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a5bc759 | No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone, | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 5975f42 | The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 757210c | Blessed finally are the poor in spirit intellectually. Blessed are the humble, and the teachable who like the Shepherds know they know nothing, or like the Wise Men who know they do not know everything. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 410b4ce | Sex understood in the modern way is Eros-love severed from responsibility; it is desire without obligation. Because it is lawless desire, it is therefore Godless desire. That is why eroticism and atheism always go together. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 0f7ec7e | The son of Confucius once said to him: "I apply myself with diligence to every kind of study, neglect nothing that could render me clever and brilliant; but I do not advance." "Omit some of your pursuits," replied Confucius, "and you will get on better. Among those who travel on foot, have you ever seen any who run? It is essential to do everything in order, and to grasp that which is within the reach of your arm; otherwise, you give yourse.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e91c305 | Blessed also are the poor in spirit socially. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f6d6103 | The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few. His | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 903fb85 | We shrink therefore from God, knowing that He wants to enrich our being, rather than our having--that He wishes to elevate our nature, not to submerge and lose it in trifles. He has called us to the superior vocation of being His children, of partaking of His nature, and of being related to Him as branches to a vine. Few of us completely want that elevation; it is our petty desire to have more,not to share the glory of being more.We want th.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f91bef6 | For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject. Love is directed to someone else for the sake of the other's perfection; sex is directed to self for the sake of self-satisfaction. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 25faea9 | It is easier to get the attention of the press when one says, as Ibsen4 did, that "two and two make five," than to be orthodox and say that two and two make four." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e4b5b9d | What the new morality resolves itself into is this: You are wrong if you do a thing you do not feel like doing; and you are right if you do a thing you feel like doing. Such a morality is based not only on "fastidiousness," but on "facetiousness." The standard of morality then becomes the individual feeling of what is beautiful, instead of the rational estimate of what is right." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ea96e84 | As the "no" of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 0a1728b | Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his irrational behavior when he does wrong. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 1d670cd | A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor. On | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| c0c937b | The hardest thing to find in the world today is an argument. Because so few are thinking, naturally there are found but few to argue. Prejudice there is in abundance and sentiment too, for these things are born of enthusiasms without the pain of labor. Thinking, on the contrary, is a difficult task; it is the hardest work a man can do -- that is perhaps why so few indulge in it. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 86e309f | In the circuits of the planets there are times when the heavens are under the earth, and in the ways of God with men there was a time when Heaven was under the earth, and that was when Christ was born in the cave of Bethlehem. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 86f3446 | I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 977dc7e | The mystery of the Incarnation is very simply that of God's asking a woman freely to give Him a human nature. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 3c8d8b5 | One will never find a professor who denies freedom of the will who does not also have something in his life for which he wishes to shake off responsibility. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 3cb13ff | As in Eden there took place the first espousals of man and woman, so, in her, there took place the first espousals of God and man, eternity and time, omnipotence and bonds. In | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 3943f86 | Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f6a07f4 | When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a9d7039 | When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can." When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His Mother as nice as He could--and that would make her a perfect Mother." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 0326c6d | As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden were celebrated the first nuptials of God and man. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| bc6ac0a | Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 4f80c03 | totalidad. El sexo es biologico y fisiologico y tiene sus zonas | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 1edb6df | The repeated use of the word "crisis" in reference to morals is interesting, for it reveals a tendency on the part of many modern writers to blame the abstract when the concrete is really at fault. They speak, for example, of the problem of crime, rather than of the criminal; of the problem of poverty, rather than of the poor; and of the "crisis in morals," when really the crisis is amongst men who are not living morally. The crisis is not .. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 06eee51 | reading from St. John Chrysostom that the life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. The reason he gave was that the holiness which the monk preserves in the desert must be preserved by the bishop into the midst of the evil of the world. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| fe7d8ac | There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. "If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 4a890d3 | The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just such a perversion of the due order of things. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| af4fc96 | God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy. | Fulton J. Sheen |