September 30
“Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
September 29
“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is 'timing' it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
September 28
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
September 27
“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
September 26
“Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
September 25
“Far better it is for you to say: ‘I am a sinner,’ than to say: ‘I have no need of religion.’ The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Beatification of Fulton Sheen
“Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
“If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
“Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
“It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees."
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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