Wise Words on Wednesday: Sacrifice
“Nothing transfigures love and lifts it to new heights as much as sacrifice, for love is freedom in search of servitude to another”
– Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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Obedience and knowledge
“The worst man in the world knows a great deal more of his duty than the best man does. It is not for want of knowledge that men go to pieces, but rather for want of obedience to the knowledge of the good they already possess”– Fulton Sheen
Love and use
“Each of these impulses is capable of being perverted. Fire in the hearth is good, but fire in the clothes closet is not. The sex instinct can be distorted into license and perversion. In that case, the other person is really not loved, but is used. One drinks the water; one forgets the glass…” – Fulton Sheen
Romantic Aspirations
“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.” – Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Hating The Roman Catholic Church
“Not one hundred people in the United States hate the Roman Catholic Church, but millions hate what they mistakenly think the Roman Catholic Church is” – Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Wise Words on Wednesday: Grandpa Sheen
“No one can pick up the Scriptures without reading a devastating criticism of social moral standards, as when the Divine Savior puts a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a religious leader, a prodigal son above his exemplary elder brother.
“Many a tree as it stands in the forest looks fair, fine, solid and valuable, but when it is cut down and sawed for use reveals rottenness, cross grain and knots. Social conformity to low standards may give the appearance of goodness, but in the judgment of God the true character is revealed” – Archbishop Fulton Sheen