Category: Fulton Sheen

It doesn’t take much time to become a saint, only much love.

To make progress the world must have action, but it must also know why it is acting, and that requires thought, contemplation, and silence.

The love of noise and excitement in modern civilization is due in part to the fact that people are unhappy on the inside. Noise exteriorized them, distracts them, and makes them forget their worries for the moment. There is an unmistakable connection between an empty life and a hectic pace.

We must keep going at anything we do until we get our second wind. One enjoys a mountain climb more after passing through the first mountain of discouraged exhaustion. One becomes more interested in a job or work after the fist impulse to drop it has been overcome.

Begin with your own emptiness and seek Him who can fill it.

Unfortunately, many have become so enamored of the gifts the Great Giver of Life has dropped on the roadway of life that they build their cities around the gift, and forget the Giver.

You were made for perfect happiness. That is your purpose. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

It is God you are looking for. Your unhappiness is not due to your want of fortune, or high position, or fame, or sufficient vitamins; it is due not to want of something outside you, but to a want of something inside you.

You think you are having a good time, but time really is the greatest obstacle in the world to happiness, not only because it makes you take pleasures successively, but also because you are never really happy until you are unconscious of the passing of time.

Pleasure is of the body; joy is of the mind and heart.