for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
