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. SheenMots clés happiness morality christianity religion church catholicism unhappiness discipline anti-religious imoral
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. SheenMots clés happiness philosophy christianity god religion marriage unhappy-marriage church relationships spirituality catholicism expectations lovers relationship-with-god
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
Fulton J. SheenMots clés happiness philosophy christianity religion marriage unhappy-marriage spirituality expectation catholicism childbirth family-planning pro-life joy-of-marriage
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Fulton J. SheenMots clés christianity god religion spirituality catholicism jesus-christ catholic perfected-man
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
Fulton J. SheenMots clés philosophy christianity spirituality catholicism catholic egocentrism self-perfection self-surrender
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
Fulton J. SheenMots clés christianity god religion catholicism catholic sinners anti-religious
"Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys. To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at the end; it is that which influences every moment of the now.
Fulton J. SheenSome change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists one year, idealists the next; cynics for another period, and Eberals for still another. They have their quivers full of arrows but no fixed target. As no game makes the hunter tired of the sport, so the want of destiny makes the mind bored with life.
Fulton J. SheenMan is incurably curious.
Fulton J. SheenMots clés curiousity
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
Fulton J. SheenMots clés life love knowledge wants
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