All love craves unity. Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes From Fulton J. Sheen 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. Fulton J. Sheen depth unhappy trying One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome. Fulton J. Sheen overcoming jobs firsts Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own. Fulton J. Sheen responsibility wisdom two 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. Fulton J. Sheen angle views remember Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for. Fulton J. Sheen party hate thinking ...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision- Fulton J. Sheen excellent decision mean Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own. Fulton J. Sheen riches prosperity honor By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward. Fulton J. Sheen mere facts Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. Fulton J. Sheen should-have inspirational children The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free. Fulton J. Sheen wisdom war mean So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love. Fulton J. Sheen hate ignorance long It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship. Fulton J. Sheen church prayer long Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties. Fulton J. Sheen stress wisdom people All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be. Fulton J. Sheen despair anxiety worry 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. Fulton J. Sheen teaching teacher children Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. Fulton J. Sheen behavior atheist intellectual Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own. Fulton J. Sheen politics hard-work men The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self. Fulton J. Sheen hate ignorance sex Science is not wisdom. Fulton J. Sheen When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts. Fulton J. Sheen evil heart believe
