Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"The egoist… interprets sacrifice as the diminishing of himself." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"The ego has a peculiar way of disguising the real reasons for its love. It can pretend to be interested in another’s welfare while actually it is seeking its own pleasure." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"There are two kinds of love: love for its own pleasure, or love for the sake of another; the first is carnal love, the second is spiritual." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"We cannot love what we do not know." Source: Ven. Fulton Sheen, These are the Sacraments
Daily Eucharist Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"The Mass, too, has an engagement which corresponds to the Offertory of the Mass, in which the faithful bring gifts of bread and wine, or its equivalent, that which buys bread and wine. As the ring is a symbol of the lover offering himself to the beloved, so too, the bread and wine are the [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Contentment, therefore, comes in part from faith – that is, from knowing the purpose of life and being assured that whatever the trials are, they come from the hand of a loving Father. Secondly, in order to have contentment one must also have a good conscious. If the inner self is unhappy because of moral [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Physical idleness deteriorates the mind, spiritual idleness deteriorates the heart." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Repose allows us to contemplate the little things we do in their relationship to the vast things which alone can give them worth and meaning. It reminds us that all actions get their worth from God: 'worship' means admitting 'worth.'" Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998. [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"It is never too late for God’s grace. It is a peculiar psychological fact that those who turn to God late in life generally consider all their previous life wasted." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Every expenditure of human strength which makes what is a means an end, which isolates living from the goal of living, is a busy idleness, a sad and mournful unreality." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.