Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world. Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes From Fulton J. Sheen The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor. Fulton J. Sheen neighbor links firsts God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation. Fulton J. Sheen inspiration secret faith Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices. Fulton J. Sheen choices giving men The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong. Fulton J. Sheen forgiveness religious god Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. Fulton J. Sheen submission action heart The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning. Fulton J. Sheen judgement mind ideas The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of private property in many hands. Instead, monopolistic capitalism concentrates productive wealth among a few men, allowing the rest to become a vast proletariat. Fulton J. Sheen wisdom men hands Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy man's freedom or to deny his personality. But Communism does. Denying God, it reduces man to a robot. Fulton J. Sheen personality men civilization Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love. Fulton J. Sheen truth-is obedience saint The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. Fulton J. Sheen tyrants self exercise Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection. Fulton J. Sheen training perfection character All love craves unity. Fulton J. Sheen crave unity Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility. Fulton J. Sheen responsibility wisdom fun His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name. Fulton J. Sheen compassion expression kindness The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything. Fulton J. Sheen bored reason If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God. Fulton J. Sheen political intellectual attitude It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war? Fulton J. Sheen pain hate atheist Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action. Fulton J. Sheen church mind thinking One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian. Fulton J. Sheen guardian illumination angel Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning. Fulton J. Sheen reasoning judgment soul
