Love is a mutual self giving which ends in self recovery.
– Fulton J. Sheen
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- “Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.” – Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and
- “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” – Fulton Sheen
- Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. – Fulton J. Sheen
- The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings. – Fulton J. Sheen
- The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste. – Fulton J. Sheen
- Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. – Fulton J. Sheen
- “Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.” – Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
- “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.” – Fulton J. Sheen
- I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. – William Blake
- Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz