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1 " The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. "
― Fulton J. Sheen , Life is Worth Living
2 " Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. "
― Fulton J. Sheen
3 " 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 , Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
4 " Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. "
5 " If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. "
6 " Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything. "
7 " The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. "
8 " 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. "
9 " 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. "
10 " The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. "
11 " Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. "
12 " Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. "
13 " All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also negating his love for anyone else. In that one act by which he chooses her, he rejects all that is not her. There is no other real way in which to prove we love a thing than by choosing it in preference to something else. Word and signs of love may be, and often are, expressions of egotism or passion; but deeds are proofs of love. We can prove we love our Lord only by choosing Him in preference to anything else. "
14 " 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! "
15 " 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. "
― Fulton J. Sheen , Three to Get Married
16 " We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace. "
17 " Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. "
― Fulton J. Sheen , Life of Christ
18 " 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. "
19 " It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it. "
20 " Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. "
