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General Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

2012.08.18 12:12

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Archbishop Sheen (Peter John sheen, 1895 - 1979), shown here in 1979,
was the host of the program “Life Is Worth Living,” watched by millions each week.

Fulton J. Sheen quotes


“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts
is to break them.”

“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing." It waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles and in the right way.”

“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God.
Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another.
Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other
soon find there is nothing else.
Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”

“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”

“Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”

“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”

“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation.
We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors
that all his pictures are crooked.”

“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than
to love things and use people.”

“Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.”

“Books are the most wonderful friends in the world.
When you meet them and pick them up,
they are always ready to give you a few ideas.
When you put them down, they never get mad;
when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.”

“Far better it is for you to say:" I am a sinner,"
than to say: "I have no need of religion.
"The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.”

“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her.
The higher her virtue, the more noble her character,
the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness,
the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.
The history of civilization could actually be written
in terms of the level of its women.”

“Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive.
In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.”

“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”

“A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults,
because she knew them all along.
His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that
angers her more than the faults.”

“Too many people get credit for being good,
when they are only being passive.
They are too often praised for being broadminded
when they are so broadminded
they can never make up their minds about anything.”

“For a woman, love is its own reason.
"I love you because I love you.”

“We become like that which we love.
If we love what is base, we become base;
but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”

“A woman never tells you why she loves;
she just tells you how she loves.”

“A man may stand for the justice of God,
but a woman stands for His Mercy.”

“The difference between the love of a man
and the love of a woman is that
a man will always give reasons for loving,
but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

“Science is not wisdom.”

“To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious.
The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife,
the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market.
To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values
is to forget that some gifts,
like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised
as long as time endures."

“Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral
also most contemptuous
of religion and morality?
They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling
the happy down to their own abysmal depths.”

“The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender.
There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.”

“Man is incurably curious.”

“Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun,
"Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars,
"Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies,
"Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call,
that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.”

“The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable
rights of man
as a gift from God, the Source of law.”

“A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself
thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down
his knowledge
to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.”

“...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-”

“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”

“Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.”

“Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will.
The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.”

“The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform
to that ideal.”

“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God.
He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone
do we find our peace.”

“What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean
the discovery was evil.”

“The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field;
the woman in making the bread.”

“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people,
there is only a sick society.”

‎"Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys.
To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at the end;
it is that which influences every moment of the now.”

“We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar.
Conscience, too, needs Revelation.”

“Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.”

“The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation.
Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice.
Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God.
Man was called to till the earth, to "rule over the earth";
woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.”

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”

“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read:
one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists one year,
idealists the next;
cynics for another period, and Eberals for still another.
They have their quivers full of arrows but no fixed target.
As no game makes the hunter tired of the sport, so
the want of destiny makes the mind bored with life.”

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