“ Tertullian said: Penitence is a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at some previous feeling. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals; poetry does not come from donkeys; international peace does not c… Fulton J. Sheen
“ From my experience it is always well never to pay attention to what people say, but rather why they say it. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Purging trial, fidelities through storm, perseverance through mediocrities, and pursuit of Divine destiny through the allurements of earth. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Three common criminals in the eyes of Roman law carry their crosses up a hill. One of them Our Savior forgives and rescues him into paradise. It was so undramatic. In fact, it was boring. So the soldi… Fulton J. Sheen
“ This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man. Fulton J. Sheen
“ The mystery of creativeness is surrounded with awe. A special reverence does envelop the power to be co-creators with God in the making of human life. It is this hidden element that in a special way b… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiat… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing to us, not those who are hateful. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new i… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Look at your heart! It tells the story of why you were made. It is not perfect in shape and contour, like a Valentine Heart. There seems to be a small piece missing out of the side of every human hear… Fulton J. Sheen
“ If you know where you are, you do not know how fast you are moving, and if you know how fast you are moving, you do not know where you are. Fulton J. Sheen
“ If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state bec… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right priciples and in the right way Fulton J. Sheen
“ We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation. Fulton J. Sheen
“ To marry someone with the idea of possessing him or her is to rob that person of the precious endowment of liberty. If that other person is mine, like a cocktail, then he or she can never make a prese… Fulton J. Sheen
“ They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness. Fulton J. Sheen
