Lift Up Your Heart Quotes

“[A] young husband with an unfaithful wife, who is consecrated and dedicated to continence, eats daily of the Bread of Life so that the bride may one day return to both the home and the faith.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Lift Up Your Heart: A Guide to Spiritual Peace

“We shrink therefore from God, knowing that He wants to enrich our being, rather than our having—that He wishes to elevate our nature, not to submerge and lose it in trifles. He has called us to the superior vocation of being His children, of partaking of His nature, and of being related to Him as branches to a vine. Few of us completely want that elevation; it is our petty desire to have more,not to share the glory of being more.We want the poor shadows, not the light—the sparks, and not the sun—the arc, and not the circle. As the desire for the world and things increases in us, God makes less and less appeal. We hold back, our fists closed about our few pennies, and thus lose the fortune He holds out to us. That is why the initial step of coming to God is so hard. We cling to our nursery toys and lose the pearl of great price.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Lift Up Your Heart

“No individual is ever made better by having his guilt excused as the result of his external environment, of bad playgrounds, of Oedipus or Electra, of Grade B milk, bad politics, or want of social opportunity.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Lift Up Your Heart: A Guide to Spiritual Peace

“Lenin was probably a saint in reverse; if he had used his energy in violence toward self and the cultivation of love, instead of in violence toward others and the cultivation of hate, he could have become the Saint Francis of the nineteenth century.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Lift Up Your Heart: A Guide to Spiritual Peace

“It is easy to understand why so many minds of this century flocked to the authoritarianism of the Nazi, the Fascist, or the Communist in their desperation for an ordering principle. Having no true picture of reality, butrecognizing the need of someguiding principle outside their confused, bewildered, and frustrated minds, they would throw themselves into the false ordering of dictatorship.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Lift Up Your Heart: A Guide to Spiritual Peace

“We hate others, and call it “zeal”; we flatter others because of what they can do for us, and call it “love”; we lie to them, and call it “tact.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Lift Up Your Heart: A Guide to Spiritual Peace