To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
FULTON J. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
FULTON J. SHEENWe are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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. SHEENModern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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. 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. 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. SHEENMany souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
FULTON J. SHEENCommunism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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. 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. SHEENA smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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. SHEENBroadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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. 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.
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