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Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Fulton J. Sheen quotes about love

American Clergyman May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979

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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Fulton J. Sheen
Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less faade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic loyalties; it will revive shepherds who shepherd rather than administrate, reverse the proportion of saints and scholars in favor of saints, create more reapers for the harvest, more pillars of fire for the lukewarm; it will make the rich see that real wealth is in the... Fulton J. Sheen
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion. Fulton J. Sheen
All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also negating his love for anyone else. In that one act by which he chooses her, he rejects all that is not her. There is no other real way in which to prove we love a thing than by choosing it in preference to something else. Word and signs of love may be, and often are, expressions of egotism or... Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I..."
for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you. Fulton J. Sheen
As our Lord said, "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things. Fulton J. Sheen
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love..."
Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us? Fulton J. Sheen
Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but Himself. It was His Person around which His teaching centered; not His teaching around which He would be remembered. 'Greater love than this no man hath' - that was the secret of His magnetism. Fulton J. Sheen
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "You must remember to love people and use things, rather than..."
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people. Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and..."
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others. Fulton J. Sheen
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how..."
A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves. Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and..."
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. Fulton J. Sheen

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