He was my brother; that is the most I can say. I just adored him. It's too big a hole.


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The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religiou...
FULTON J. SHEEN
The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.
FULTON J. SHEEN
Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.
FULTON J. SHEEN
If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but w...
FULTON J. SHEEN
What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.
FULTON J. SHEEN
We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ult...
FULTON J. SHEEN
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
FULTON J. SHEEN
The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...
FULTON J. SHEEN
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrend...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and m...
FULTON J. SHEEN
When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...
FULTON J. SHEEN
He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ...
FULTON J. SHEEN
He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings;...
FULTON J. SHEEN
A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kin...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers fo...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic...
FULTON J. SHEEN
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
FULTON J. SHEEN
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understa...
FULTON J. SHEEN
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEEN
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellec...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Man is incurably curious.
FULTON J. SHEEN
Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
FULTON J. SHEEN
A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.
FULTON J. SHEEN
for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.
FULTON J. SHEEN
A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.
FULTON J. SHEEN
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is n...
FULTON J. SHEEN
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the paren...
FULTON J. SHEEN
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks he...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are alw...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEEN
Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justif...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEEN
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEEN
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Since the basic cause of man’s anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it ...
FULTON J. SHEEN
There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is...
FULTON J. SHEEN
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; ...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is...
FULTON J. SHEEN
His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emoti...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of...
FULTON J. SHEEN
In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptati...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
FULTON J. SHEEN
All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine ...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine r...
FULTON J. SHEEN