Love Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen

57 Love quotes by Fulton J. Sheen

A love that gives without asking back shows its true size. It can change the person you become, making you noble if you love noble things. It also brings a quiet duty, because falling in love means taking responsibility in everyday life.

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Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

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All love craves unity.

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for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

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Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

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The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

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The power of the rosary is beyond description.

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The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

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A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

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When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.

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When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

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“Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing…

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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your…

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Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

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Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of…

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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons…

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A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

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“Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: “God loves me!” And then add: “And I will try to…

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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it…

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To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity;…

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“Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No…

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When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to…

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All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in…

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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own,…

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Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from…

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“Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but…

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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the…

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“Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love…

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By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have…

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So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner,…

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“All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks…

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“As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes…

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Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time…

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A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and…

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“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other…

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To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

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Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

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“Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?”

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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is…

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The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

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“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be…

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“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man…

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“To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves…

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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

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One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

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