God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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. SHEENIf you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
FULTON J. SHEENNo man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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. SHEENJudge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
FULTON J. SHEENIt is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
FULTON J. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
FULTON J. SHEENMoral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
FULTON J. SHEENOur Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENWe are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
FULTON J. SHEENWhen a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
FULTON J. SHEENTo tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
FULTON J. SHEENMost commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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