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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1ae9c05 | yet to be daily committed to the greatest of all wars--the one waged within. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 99ea54b | It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ec1a24f | He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 69ab3fa | We must always strive to improve, little by little. | Alfredo Di Stéfano | ||
| 71ea81b | Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e2e7630 | What is the difference between work and play?" and he answers: "Work has a purpose, play has none, but there must be time in life for purposeless things, even foolishness." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 4a5be79 | Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an environment of love. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 2f87a8f | Our Blessed Lord used an illustration of this mystery, "You cannot understand the blowing of the wind, but you obey its laws and thus harness its force; so also with the Spirit. Obey the law of the wind, and it will fill your sails and carry you onward. Obey the law of the Spirit and you will know the new birth. Do not postpone relationship with this law simply because you cannot fathom its mystery intellectually." The wind breathes where i.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 0be45fc | By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 8ef4413 | since lower nature had fallen through man, it was fitting that all lower nature should be reconciled to God through man. That is why there was an Incarnation instead of pantheism. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 4b36433 | As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d3d18e5 | He often chooses weak instruments in order that His power might be manifested; otherwise it would seem that the good was done by the clay, rather than by the Spirit. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 488dfa5 | Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 02c88dd | The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 8e89ccb | The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| b25bbff | The Christian law is that the higher we go, the lower we are to become. Our Blessed Lord said, "Let the greatest among you be as the least." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| dface98 | hous vivons aux temps des assassins --"we live in days of assassins"--where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience." -- | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 0b80d93 | relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a30cb47 | A deep spiritual bond exists between Christians, Moslems and Jews, for as Pope Pius XII said, all Christians are "spiritual Semites" because we are descended spiritually from Abraham." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d5b119e | The porter who took my bag said to me: "Everybody knows you; it must be wonderful to be a bishop." And I said to him: "Suppose you had four hundred children and ten were very sick and five were dying. Would you not worry and stay awake at night? Well, that is my family. It is not as wonderful as you think." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ba1edb5 | As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f97ae23 | The celibate is bound to feel lonely in that atmosphere, but it is a different kind of loneliness that plagues the erotic. The former is tempted because, in the natural order, he is without a partner; the other is lonely even when he has his partner, for as St. Augustine reflected: "Our hearts were made for Thee, O Lord, and they cannot rest until they rest in Thee." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 9bd33ba | insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 8d89ea0 | a love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved-- God--without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 79fe404 | Three dominant evils prevailed--clerical concubinage, simony | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 69f972d | two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II, | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| c5b1b15 | we suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f8c8a48 | Without Me you can do nothing"... nothing." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 8cb35d6 | Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness. | love | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 3683ca2 | Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 694f402 | In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 8c51a60 | If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f87a720 | You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 85251c6 | Tertullian said: "Penitence is a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at some previous feeling." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 66d99f6 | From my experience it is always well never to pay attention to what people say, but rather why they say it. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 37f7ffe | sex seeks the part; love the totality. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f2a2d1b | purging trial, fidelities through storm, perseverance through mediocrities, and pursuit of Divine destiny through the allurements of earth. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 6f62a29 | the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license, | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 4a53712 | libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 30d8a0f | The true notion is that the material universe is a sign or an indication of what God is. We look at the purity of the snowflake and we see something of the goodness of God. The world is full of poetry: it is sin which turns it into prose. | Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f8c2fd8 | The world blesses not the meek, but the vindictive; it praises not the one who turns the other cheek, but the one who renders evil for evil; it exalts not the humble, but the aggressive. Ideological forces have carried that spirit of violence, class-struggle, and the clenched fist to an extreme the like of which the world before has never seen. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f4fb4f9 | You have heard that it has been said: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other: and if a man will contend with you in judgment, and take away your coat, let go your cloak also unto him. And whosoever shall force you one mile, go with him two. . . . You have heard that it has been said: You shall love your neighbor, and hate your en.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| ff71552 | Two tadpoles at the bottom of a pond were one day discussing the problem of existence. One said to the other, "I think I will stick my head out to see if there is anything else in the world." The other tadpole said, "Don't be silly, do you think there is anything else in this world besides water?" So those who live the natural life ignore the beauty of the higher life of grace." | Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 1f71b43 | It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good, | Fulton J. Sheen |