Category: Fulton Sheen

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: one of the crosses, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

You must remember to love people and use things rather than to love things and use people.

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 filed, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

Unless there is a Good Friday, there can be no Easter Sunday.

If you don’t behave as you believe, you will believe as you do.

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.

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers in Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles, and in the right way.

The fundamental reason for loneliness is that man today has divorced himself from both love of God and the love of neighbor.

With the crib as a tabernacle and the child as a kind of host, the home becomes a living temple of God. The sacristan of that sanctuary is the mother, who never permits the tabernacle lamp of faith to go out.