“ When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, You know how it is; one tries to make one’s Mummy just as nice as he can. When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His… Fulton J. Sheen
“ The repeated use of the word crisis in reference to morals is interesting, for it reveals a tendency on the part of many modern writers to blame the abstract when the concrete is really at fault. They… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism. Fulton J. Sheen
“ It is easier to get the attention of the press when one says, as Ibsen4 did, that two and two make five, than to be orthodox and say that two and two make four. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Deep sorrow does not come because one has violated a law, but only if one knows he has broken off the relationship with Divine Love. But there is yet another element required for regeneration, the ele… Fulton J. Sheen
“ As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance. Fulton J. Sheen
“ As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain. Fulton J. Sheen
“ As Augustine observed: Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, so ancient and so new. Late have I loved Thee. Fulton J. Sheen
“ A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal love from the people it sees, from the books it reads, from its hopes and daydreams, in the fond hope that the eye may one d… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and thereby makes everyone nice. By denying sin, the nice people make a cure impossible. Sin is most serious… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth. Tolerance a… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost always blame everyone but themselves for their miseries. Shut up within themselves, they are necessarily… Fulton J. Sheen
“ All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in which God shared communion with human life, thus p… Fulton J. Sheen
“ If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Our poor human heart is flawed: it is like a cake without the frosting: the first two acts of the theatre without the climax. Even its design is marred for a small piece is missing out of the side. Th… Fulton J. Sheen
“ The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited instincts. If they do good, they believe they are to receive the credit for it; i… Fulton J. Sheen
“ America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nea… Fulton J. Sheen
“ It is not so much what people suffer that makes the world mysterious; it is rather how much they miss when they suffer. They seem to forget that even as children they made obstacles in their games in… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Go back to that night when Divine Light, in order to illumine the darkness of men, tabernacled Himself in the world He had made… The angels and a star caught up in the reflection of that Light, as a t… Fulton J. Sheen
