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I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.


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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...
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