No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
FULTON J. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
FULTON J. SHEENCivilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
FULTON J. SHEENMoral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
FULTON J. SHEENI feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
FULTON J. SHEENOur happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
FULTON J. SHEENIt was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
FULTON J. SHEENLet those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
FULTON J. SHEENAll worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
FULTON J. SHEENThe greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
FULTON J. SHEENLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENLove was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
FULTON J. SHEENEach of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
FULTON J. SHEENBefore the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
FULTON J. SHEENHelp someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
FULTON J. SHEENMany souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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