Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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. SHEENThere is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
FULTON J. SHEENI wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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. SHEENIt’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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 greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
FULTON J. SHEENSkeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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.
FULTON J. SHEENCommunism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
FULTON J. SHEENSometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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.
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