Fulton sheen quotes materialism

His feast day is celebrated every year on 9 December. If the frustrated soul is educated, it has a smattering of uncorrected bits of information with no unifying philosophy.

Bishop Fulton Sheen — 'To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it.

Then the frustrated soul may say to itself: "I sometimes think there are two of me a living soul and a Ph. His own skepticism which he universalizes into a philosophy of life throws him back more and more upon those powers lurking in the dark, dank caverns of his unconsciousness. He changes his philosophy as he changes his clothes. On Monday, he lays down the tracks of materialism; on Tuesday, he reads a best seller, pulls up the old tracks, and lays the new tracks of an idealist; on Wednesday, his new roadway is Communistic; on Thursday, the new rails of Liberalism are laid; on Friday, he-hears a broadcast and decides to travel on Freudian tracks: on Saturday, he takes a long drink to forget his railroading and, on Sunday, ponders why people are so foolish as to go to Church.

Each day he has a new idol , each week a new mood. His authority is public opinion: when that shifts, his frustrated soul shifts with it.

“Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do.

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