Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
Fulton J. SheenThe very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
Fulton J. SheenWhenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.
Fulton J. SheenTags: wisdom life catholicism catholic catholic-spirituality p221
The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.
Fulton J. SheenTags: wisdom life truth christianity faith catholicism catholic mediocrity p315
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. SheenTags: catholicism catholic
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.
Fulton J. SheenTags: morality apathy catholicism catholic
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Fulton J. SheenTags: wisdom life tolerance catholicism catholic p364
The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The same sun shines upon mud that shines upon wax. It hardens the mud but softens the wax. The difference is not in the sun, but in that upon which it shines. The Divine Life which shines upon a soul that loves Him, softens it into everlasting life; that same Divine Life which shines upon the slothful soul, neglectful of God, hardens it into everlasting death.
Fulton J. SheenTags: love god hate catholicism catholic
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.
Fulton J. SheenTags: love sacrifice self-giving
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.
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