You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
FULTON J. SHEENYou must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
FULTON J. SHEENMost commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
FULTON J. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
FULTON J. SHEENEvery moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
FULTON J. SHEENThe old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
FULTON J. SHEENThe Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
FULTON J. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENNever forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
FULTON J. SHEENEvil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
FULTON J. SHEENA Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
FULTON J. SHEENMany souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
FULTON J. SHEENAll badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
FULTON J. SHEENShow me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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