Grace will move…
Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Envy is sadness…
Envy is sadness at another’s good, and joy at another’s evil. What rust is to iron, what moths are to wool, what termites are to wood, that is what envy is to the soul: the assassination of brotherly love. Envy manifests itself in discord, hatred, malicious joy, backbiting, detraction, imputing evil motives, jealousy, and calumny.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
God will have God’s day…
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Incurably curious…
Man is incurably curious.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Tolerance is an…
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Worship God, not yourself…
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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