Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness. Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes From Fulton J. Sheen Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of nature is symbolic, and there is no necessary connection between the phenomena and our fictions. Fulton J. Sheen connections mind reality Much suffering in hospitals is wasted. Fulton J. Sheen hospitals suffering The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is something more than a knowledge of matter the soul craves. Fulton J. Sheen men science sex The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. Fulton J. Sheen unions culture christ Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists. Fulton J. Sheen modern subjects sex Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. Fulton J. Sheen silence play children Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep. Fulton J. Sheen generosity giving Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts. Fulton J. Sheen doe hair today Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics. Fulton J. Sheen buddhism children son The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities. Fulton J. Sheen responsibility wisdom men Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail. Fulton J. Sheen horse responsibility wisdom Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body. Fulton J. Sheen atmosphere smell sound Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason. Fulton J. Sheen sins-not atheism nine All our anxieties relate to time. Fulton J. Sheen relate anxiety The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago. Fulton J. Sheen our-generation different mean Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad. Fulton J. Sheen incline speak temptation The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious. Fulton J. Sheen religious men Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Fulton J. Sheen tribute mediocrity jealousy genius The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away. Fulton J. Sheen away big fine print
