Top 55 Fulton J Sheen Love Quotes
#1. Everything that is full of life loves change,
for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures
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#2. They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.
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#3. Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his irrational behavior when he does wrong.
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#4. What some people love is not a person but the experience of being in love. The first is irreplaceable; the second is not.
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#5. Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.
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#6. For a woman, love is its own reason. I love you because I love you.
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#7. God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.
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#8. As the "no" of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well.
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#9. All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.
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#10. As our Lord said, "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things.
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#11. When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.
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#12. To fall in love means to fall into something ... And that something is responsibility.
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#13. To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.
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#14. Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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#15. Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing to us, not those who are hateful.
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#16. Love itself starts with the desire for something good.
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#17. Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: "God loves me!" And then add: "And I will try to love Him!
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#18. Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.
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#19. The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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#21. To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.
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#22. Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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#23. 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.
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#24. Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.
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#25. God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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#26. Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism.
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#27. He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation." Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.
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#29. Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.
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#30. You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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#31. The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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#32. How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.
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#33. Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?
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#34. So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.
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#35. Here is the answer to the riddle of love. Love implies relation. If lived in isolation, it becomes selfishness; if absorbed in collectivity, it loses its personality and, therefore, the right to love.
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#36. We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.
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#37. It is a curious psychological fact that those who make their personal love public, and "dear" one another with saccharine epithets, are very often those who when alone quarrel and fight.
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#38. The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.
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#39. The lover of God never knows the words "too much." Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.
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#40. Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
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#41. Carnal love, despite its seeming intimacy, often can become an exchange of egotisms. The ego is projected onto the other person and what is loved is not the other person, but the pleasure the other person gives.
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#42. No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone,
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#43. A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries
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#44. The very fact that a man or a woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all, for though sex is replaceable, love is not.
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#46. She satisfies my ideal." Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be "love at first sight" is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a dream.
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#47. Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
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#48. We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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#49. The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.
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#50. Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.
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#51. Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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#52. Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world ...
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#53. In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God.
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#54. A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.
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#55. The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
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