Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
The soul may take dryness and darkness as fortunate symptoms: symptoms that God is freeing her from herself. He is disentangling her from the activity of her faculties. Probably she would have been able to acquire much through this, her own activity, but never as completely, perfectly, and securely as she does now since God takes her by the hand. He is leading her in the darkness… by ways that she herself, in the happiest of wanderings while using her own eyes and feet, would never have succeeded in finding.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Struggle (with Sin)
The worst thing in the world is not sin; it is the denial of sin by a false conscience – for that attitude makes forgiveness impossible. The unforgivable sin is the denial of sin.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
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.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Besides physical hunger, people have another hunger, one that cannot be satisfied with ordinary food. It is the hunger for life, hunger for love (and) hunger for eternity.
–Pope Francis (1936- June 19, 2014
Church, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
The days in which we live now require heroic Catholicism, not casual Catholicism. We can no longer be Catholics by accident, but instead be Catholics by conviction.
–Daniel Jenky (1947-
