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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Credulity toward men and incredulity toward God is the mark of dull hearts; readiness to believe speculatively and slowness to believe practically is the sign of sluggish hearts.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 413 #

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Original drawings now had to be torn up—not because they were too great, but because in the eyes of God they were too little.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 412 #

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Sorrow afflicts a woman’s heart when she loses the beloved; but men generally become perplexed in mind rather than heart at a similar loss.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 411-12 #

Monday, March 8, 2010

To the honor of womanhood it must forever be said: A woman was closest to the Cross on Good Friday, and first at the tomb on Easter morn.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 407 #

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Nothing transfigures love and lifts it to new heights as much as sacrifice, for love is freedom in search of servitude.
— Fulton Sheen, Guide to Contentment, p. 26 #

Saturday, March 6, 2010

But the arrow of sin that wounds and crucifies brings the balm of forgiveness that heals.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 399 #

Friday, March 5, 2010

All excuses are cast aside when the vileness of sin is most poignantly revealed.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 399 #

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
— Neil Gaiman, as quoted in Ten rules for writing fiction #

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn’t appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
— Calvin Coolidge #

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

God answers no man’s prayer merely to show His power.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 390 #

Monday, March 1, 2010

The world has room only for the ordinary; never the very good or the very bad. The good are a reproach to the mediocre and the evil are a disturbance.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 389 #

Sunday, February 28, 2010

[T]o be without love is hell.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 379 #

Saturday, February 27, 2010

An intelligent, discreet, and pious young woman
is worth more than all the money in the world.
Tell her you love her more than your own life,
because this present life is nothing,
and that your only hope is that the two of you pass
through this life in such a way that,
in the world to come,
you will be united in perfect love.
— St. John Chrysostom #

Friday, February 26, 2010

No love ever mounts to a higher level without death to a lower one.
— Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 377 #

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