Category: Fulton Sheen

No man is good unless he is humble; and humility is a recognition of truth concerning oneself. A man who thinks he is more significant than he is is not humble but a vain and boastful fool.

As scientific truth put us in our intelligent relation with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation with God the Father; for He is the only possible Word by which God can address Himself to a world of sinners.

Love itself starts with the desire for something good.

A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.

The very word mercy is derived from the Latin, miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another’s unhappiness.

You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God.

Why is there more joy in Heaven for the repentant sinner than for the righteous? Because God’s attitude is not judgment but love. In judgment, one is not as joyful after doing wrong as before; but in love, there is joy because the danger and worry of losing that soul is past. He who is sick is loved more that he who is well, because he needs it more.

To a great extent the worlds is what we make it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles, and avoids a spirit of fault finding.

The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.

The lover of God never knows the words “too much.” Those who accuse other of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.