A 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. 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. 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. SHEENSex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
FULTON J. SHEENIt is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
FULTON J. SHEENThe greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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. 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. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENHumility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
FULTON J. SHEENWe are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENMost of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
FULTON J. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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. 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. SHEENLiberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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