The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes From Fulton J. Sheen When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front. Fulton J. Sheen fronts mean Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness. Fulton J. Sheen miracle crosses want In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder. Fulton J. Sheen divorce heart inspiring Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. Fulton J. Sheen patience inspirational life Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more. Fulton J. Sheen friends book ideas The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection. Fulton J. Sheen giving-up heart men Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news. Fulton J. Sheen news self looks The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility. Fulton J. Sheen taxation responsibility want I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion. Fulton J. Sheen suffering wonder doe Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his. Fulton J. Sheen pure satan Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory. Fulton J. Sheen sunshine adversity inspiration Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error. Fulton J. Sheen punishment errors attitude It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. Fulton J. Sheen loyalty two people Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache. Fulton J. Sheen catholic philosophy two When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived. Fulton J. Sheen blessed people years When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown! Fulton J. Sheen parent heaven children It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long. Fulton J. Sheen prayer exercise two There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State." Fulton J. Sheen russia wisdom men At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners. Fulton J. Sheen savior mary crosses It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced. Fulton J. Sheen birth son jesus
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