Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"The secret to a happy life is the moderation of our pleasures in exchange for an increase of joy." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Lasting happiness can never come from the world. Joy is not derived from the things we get or the people we meet; it is manufactured by the soul itself, as it goes about its self-forgetful business." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Alphonsus Liguori
"Behold the source of every good, Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, who says, 'If any man thirst, let him come to Me' (St. John vii. 37). Oh, what torrents of grace have the Saints drawn from the fountain of the Most Blessed Sacrament! for there Jesus dispenses all the merits of His Passion, as [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Perfection is being, not doing; it is not to affect an act but to achieve a character. There is nothing that makes life unhappier than its meaninglessness, and life is devoid of meaning only when it is without purpose. There are tens of thousands of minor purposes, but the one great purpose is the perfection [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
Joy is significantly different from pleasure. Pleasure is a feeling reflecting that instant. It mimics joy but it is not joy. Joy is persistent and lasting. A person who is joyful does not fall out of joy because prosperity ends and adversity starts. The joy persists. Pleasure is fleeting. When a pleasurable activity ends, so does [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
Ven. Fulton Sheen explains the core virtue of the Gospel. We are called to love, especially people who others do not love. Jesus describes this as loving our enemies. We should not limit our understanding of this to just adversaries that we are competing against or that threaten us. We need to love everyone, especially people [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"If a sense of guilt weighs down the soul no amount of pleasure on the outside can compensate for the loss of joy on the inside. As sorrow is attendant on sin, so joy is the companion of holiness." Source: Ven. Fulton Sheen, The Way to Happiness
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Spiritual joy is a serenity of temper in the midst of the changes of life, such as a mountain has when a storm breaks over it." Source: Ven. Fulton Sheen, The Way to Happiness
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
Levity is an act; joy, a habit. Source: Ven. Fulton Sheen, These are the Sacraments