Quotes about Understanding
Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
As the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.
— 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
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.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another's unhappiness.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than psychologists have.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Freudanism interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Like train announcers, they know all the stations, but never travel. Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen