Help 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. 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. SHEENHow could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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. SHEENI wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
FULTON J. SHEENCommunism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
FULTON J. SHEENSouls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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. SHEENLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENOur Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENBroadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
FULTON J. SHEENPrayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
FULTON J. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
FULTON J. SHEENThere are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
FULTON J. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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.
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