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1951 by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Love is primarily in the will, not in the emotions or the glands.

It takes three to make love, for lover and beloved are bound together . . . by an Ideal outside both.

. . . go. . . beyond . . . justice

The human heart was made for the Sacred Heart of Love, and no one but God can satisfy it.

. . . husband and wife should say: “We both want a Love that will never die,. . . that love lies beyond both of us ; let us, therefore, use our marital love for one another to bring us to that perfect, blissful love, which is God.

Purity is reverence paid to the mystery of sex.

The holy Word of God tells us: “It is not well that man should be without companionship.” {Gen 2 ; 18}

To the married, Mary is the model . . .

Sex can dominate the spiritual simply through nonresistance, but for the spiritual to rule over the flesh requires discipline and effort.”

Those who say the Church is opposed to sex are talking nonsense . . .

. . . God hates voluntary barrenness and sterility.” [emphasis added]

The permanence of the bond is necessary . . .

. . . the indissoluble family tie is one of the best forces . . .

Our Lord . . . had come for His marriage to His spouse, the Church.

Every true marriage is lasting because God so ordered: “And so the are no longer two, they are one flesh ; what God, then, has joined, let not man put under” {Mt 19:6}

Fidelity in marriage implies much more than abstention from adultery[:

Physical

Mental

Emotional

Trust

Time

Priority

Situational

etc.]

Nothing on earth is stronger than the fidelity of a heart fortified by the sacrament . . .

Human generation is related in a special way to eternity[, for souls cannot die]

Children . . . beget humility.

[Consecrate your marriage / family to both t]hese two hearts, the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus . . .

One of the greatest mistakes the human heart can make is to seek pleasure as a goal of life [a.k.a., hedonism]

Aridity of love is not the defeat of love but rather its challenge. . . . The modern solution in marriage is to find a new love ; the Christian solution is to recapture [the] old love.

Christian love on the part of one spouse will help redeem the other partner.

. . . the utilization of . . . sufferings

What makes life tragic is not so much what happens, but rather how we react to what happens.

Sacrifice is pain with love ; pain is sacrifice without love.