Pondering Tidbits of Truth - March 19, 2026



Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.




Ven. Fulton J. Sheen

"Because kindness is related to love, it follows that the kind person loves another not for the pleasure the other person gives, not because the other person can do us a kindness in return, but because the other person is loveable in himself...To a great extent the world is what we make of it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness, we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with the infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles , and avoids a spirit of fault-finding."

(From Way to Happiness)

 

Paul Washer

"Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color pictures of Noah's Ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told." 

(As quoted by Shaun Kenney in an article published in the November 23, 2018 issue of The Wanderer entitled “Education, Adoration and a USCCB Election”)

 

Ven. Fulton J. Sheen

“Along with silence, there must go a sense of the Presence of God. This means begging the Divine Light to illumine our hearts to see them not as we think we are, or as others think we are, but as we really are in the sight of God.”

(From Simple Truths)

 

 

 

 

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