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We've all had saints in our lives, by which I mean not plaster saints, not moral exemplars, not people setting for us a kind of suffocating good example, but I mean saints in the sense of life givers. People through knowing whom we become more alive.
— Frederick Buechner
For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.
— Frederick Douglass
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
They excuse themselves, saying they are bored because they are not loved: No! They are bored because they do not love; because they have denied love.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The very fact that a man or woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all. For though sex is replaceable, love is not. Sex is for pleasure; love is for a person. Cows can graze on other pastures, but a person admits of no substitution.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen