Zingers from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen...
There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly
hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive
to be the Catholic Church.
A heckler asked Bishop Sheen a question about someone who had died. The
Bishop replied, "I will ask him when I get to heaven." The heckler
replied, "What if he isn't in Heaven?"
The Bishop replied, "Well then you ask him."
A man told Bishop Sheen he did not believe in hell. The Bishop replied,
"You will when you get there."
If we are to find the source of the life, truth, and love that is in the
world, we have to go to a life that is not mingled with its shadow, death;
to a truth that is not mingled with its shadow, error; to a love that is
not mingled with its shadow, hate.
There were three sweet monotonies in His (Christs) life - thirty years
obeying, three years teaching, three hours redeeming.
Every mother, when she picks up the young life that has been born to her,
looks up to the heavens to thank GOD for the gift which made the world
young again. But here was a Mother, a Madonna, who did not look up. She
looked down to Heaven, for this was Heaven in her arms.
Hence He was given the name of Jesus, which means Savior. It was an irreplaceable
name, before which the heavens and the earth trembled and before which
our knees bow.
If any one of us could have made own mother, we would have made her the
most beautiful woman in the world.
Our brains today are big enough. Could it be that our hearts are too small?
Dirt is nothing more than matter which is in the wrong place.
Every theologian ought to be a mystic; every D.D., or Doctor of Divinity,
ought to be a saint. He knows enough to be one, but he does not will it.
I am a D.D., but I am not a saint.
May GOD have mercy on my soul.
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.
Did you know that, in Heaven, an angel is a no-body?
Everything we do, whether good or evil, goes down into our unconscious
mind... So at the end of every human life there will be pulled out of our
subconscious or unconscious mind the record of every thought, word and
deed. This will be the basis of our judgment.
The best definition of an adult that was ever given is one who has stopped
growing at both ends and has begun to grow in the middle.
Not many men want to die to their lower selves; it costs so much. Some
prefer to have a cosmic religion, which neither puts restraint on their
pride nor curbs their passions.
We cannot like everyone, but we can love everyone.
When we say we fear GOD, we mean we shrink from hurting One Whom we love.
Compiled by Bob Stanley, May 27, 1999
Updated January 31, 2001
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