"Many married women who have deliberately spurned the……" — Fulton J. Sheen
"Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!"
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166 Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton J. Sheen has 166 quotes on this site.
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let…
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So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am…
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Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our…
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Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen…
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Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded…
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The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in…
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As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born…
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it…
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All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in…
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By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life.…
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More Childbearing Quotes
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Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not…
— Betty Rollin
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Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be…
— David R. Brower
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Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
— Andrea Dworkin
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By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea,…
— Margaret Sanger
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When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke…
— Lisa See
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Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential…
— Ina May Gaskin
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The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the…
— Susun Weed
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms,…
— Marquis de Sade
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I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve…
— Beth Ditto
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
— Norman Mailer
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It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by…
— George Orwell
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A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me…
— Anna Quindlen
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