Treasure in Clay Quotes

“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.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“So it is when we measure ourselves by God, we fall infinitely short; and when we compare ourselves with many who have given us inspiration, we feel a deep sense of unworthiness. But behind it all, and despite all of this, there is the tremendous consciousness of the mercy of God. He did not call angels to be priests; He called men. He did not make gold the vessel for his treasure; He made clay. The motley group of Apostles that He gathered about Him became more worthy through his mercy and compassion. I”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“As Augustine observed: “Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, so ancient and so new. Late have I loved Thee.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Pope John Paul II, who has a mystique without a politique. He has no armies, no publicity directors, no propaganda machine and comes from the smallest state in all the world.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Celibacy is like poetry keeping the idea ever in mind like a dream; but marriage uses chisel and brush, concentrating more on marble and canvas. Celibacy jumps to a conclusion like an intuition; marriage, like reason, labors through ebb and flow, step by step.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“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.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“We live in days of assassins’—where evil is sought in lives more than good to justify a world with a bad conscience.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“The Logos or Word of God taking a child on His lap will forever remain the mission of education- to share it as wealth must be shared.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Our Lord has a double view of us: the way He intended us to be and the way we corresponded to His grace.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“There would be a course on the philosophy of history; another year the philosophy of Marxism, another the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, etc. All of these were presented in the light of the thought of St. Thomas.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“The celibate is bound to feel lonely in that atmosphere, but it is a different kind of loneliness that plagues the erotic. The former is tempted because, in the natural order, he is without a partner; the other is lonely even when he has his partner, for as St. Augustine reflected: “Our hearts were made for Thee, O Lord, and they cannot rest until they rest in Thee.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“hous vivons aux temps des assassins —“we live in days of assassins”—where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“From my experience it is always well never to pay attention to what people say, but rather why they say it.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York.” She did not understand the paradox.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Tertullian said: “Penitence is a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at some previous feeling.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“we suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II,”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Three dominant evils prevailed—clerical concubinage, simony”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of ‘Vanaprastha,’ that is, one retired from the household cares.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“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”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“A deep spiritual bond exists between Christians, Moslems and Jews, for as Pope Pius XII said, all Christians are “spiritual Semites” because we are descended spiritually from Abraham.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen