January 2010
32 posts
Vicious people like a monopoly on their vices, and when they find others with...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 183
For the end of the world was long ago—
And all we who dwell today
As...
– G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
The truly good man feels the world is the way it is because in some way he has...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 173
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
– J. B. Priestley
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
– G.K. Chesterton
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard,...
– Helen Keller
A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes...
– Ingrid Bergmen
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering...
– Kahlil Gibran
The world is a book, and those who don’t travel read only one page.
– St. Augustine
Every time I think of exercise, I have to lie down until the feeling leaves me.
– from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The wildlife here is not like you’re used to. They wear high heels.
– from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The novitiate of marriage must necessarily embrace two elements: the...
– Fulton Sheen, Love Dreams
A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal...
– Fulton Sheen, Love Dreams
To know a woman at the hour of desire, one must first respect her at the...
– A French author, as quoted by Fulton Sheen in Love Dreams.
Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves. What...
– Fulton Sheen, Love Dreams
Relax, Happy. Stop having kittens.
– from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Everything is a grace… Everything is the direct effect of our...
– St. Therese of Lisieux
Sacrifice does not mean “giving-up” something, as if there were a...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 167
Expect the grass to wither and the birds to drop dead out of the air, when a...
– G.K. Chesterton
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 150
Lust is sex in the wrong place.
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 147
In the reckoning of men there is always a deficit; in the arithmetic of God,...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 135
Nature was to go as far as it could, then God supplied the rest.
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 135
Skepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 132
A future life is denied not so much by the way one things as by the way one...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 132
Belief in immortality dies easily in those who live in such a way that they...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 132
The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 127
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 127
Love knows no limits.
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 122
What He taught was self-crucifixion: to love those who hate us; to pluck out...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 119
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to...
– J. B. Priestley