"The Sacrifice of Calvary was offered up in a bloody manner by the separation of His blood from His body. In the Mass, this death is mystically and sacramentally presented in an unbloody manner, by the separate consecration of bread and wine. The two are not consecrated together by such words as 'This is My [...]
"Many say: 'I have labored for years for others and even for God, and what did I get out of it? I am still nothing.' The answer is, they have gained something; they have gained the truth of their own littleness – and of course, great merit in the next life." Source: Ven. Fulton [...]
"Humility makes us receptive to giving of others. You could not give unless I took. It is the taker that makes the giver." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"Any great love… makes the lover indifferent to physical hardships and sordid surroundings. The hovel of a man and wife who love each other is a far more joyous place than the rich apartment of the couple who have lost their love. Love of God begets an even greater indifference to our environment: a saint [...]
"Humility is truth about ourselves." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"How much happier people would be if instead of exalting their ego to infinity, they reduced it to zero." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"In the Mass, the faithful are already present on the altar under the appearance of bread and wine. At the moment of the Consecration of the Mass, when the priest as Christ pronounces the words 'This is My Body' and 'This is My Blood,' the substance of the bread becomes the substance of the body [...]
"The marital act is nothing but a fragile and shadowy image of Communion in which, after having offered ourselves under the appearance of bread and wine and having died to our lower self, we now begin to enjoy that ecstatic union with Christ in Holy Communion-a oneness which is, in the language of Thompson, 'a [...]
"He who gives himself importance by boasting is actually showing the credentials of his own worthlessness. Pride is an attempt to create an impression that we are what we actually are not." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"There are some people who love to boast of their tolerance, but actually it is inspired by egotism; they want to be left alone in their own ideas, however wrong they be, so they plead for a tolerance of other people’s ideas. But this kind of tolerance is very dangerous, for it becomes intolerance as [...]