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Fulton J. Sheen
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„We find only what we seek: nature has many secrets to give us, but she will not surrender them until we sit down patiently before her and obey her laws. Only by such submission do we receive.“
„The revolt of the modern child against his parents is a miniature of the revolt of the modern world against the memory of 1900 years of Christian culture and the great Hebrew, Grecian and Roman cultures which preceded them. Any respect for that tradition is called “reactionary,” with the result that the modern soul has developed a commentator mentality which judges yesterday by today, and today by tomorrow. Nothing is more tragic in an individual who once was wise than to lose his memory, and nothing is more tragic to a civilization than the loss of its tradition.“
„There is not a single striving or pursuit or yearning of the human heart, even in the midst of the most sensual pleasures, that is not a dim grasping after the Infinite.“
„The very good never believe themselves very good, because they are judging themselves by the Ideal.“
„We justify want of faith by saying, “I don’t go to church, but I am better than those who do,” as one might say, “I don’t pay taxes or serve the nation, but I am better than those who do.”“
„All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life — I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.“
„[P]eace of soul implies tranquillity of order, with material things ordered to the body, the body to the soul, the personality to neighbor and to God. Peace of mind is subjective tranquillity — a narrower thing. It requires great moral effort to attain peace of soul, but even those who are indifferent to right and wrong sometimes achieve peace of mind“
„The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them.“
„Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.“
„When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.“
„[T]here is a tremendous egotism and conceit in those popular articles and lectures entitled,”My Idea of Religion,” or “My Idea of God.” An individual religion can be as misleading and uninformed as an individual astronomy or an individual mathematics.“
„In contrast to the pride of those who deny their guilt to escape self-criticism is the humility of God, who made a world which added not to His glory and then made man to criticize Him.“
„[H]e is of the intelligentsia (which means he has been educated beyond his intelligence).“
„Christian theology is, in a certain sense, a psychology, since its primary interest is the soul, the most precious of things. Our Lord balanced a universe against a soul and found the soul worth more than gaining a world.“
„There are no plains in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. Furthermore the pose of indifference is only intellectual. The will must choose. And even though an “indifferent” soul does not positively reject the infinite, the infinite rejects it.“
„Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.“
„Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.“
„All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.“
„Science is not wisdom.“
„A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.“
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