Quotes from Frank Sheed

man is essentially a social being. We should not come into existence unless other humans produced us, or stay in existence unless they maintained us in it.

There is no external operation of the divine nature which is the work of one Person as distinct from the Others.

ignorance about the Supreme Being is worse poverty than ignorance about any of the lesser beings He has created of nothing.

He made all things from nothing, and these perfections will be in things only in so far as nothingness can receive them, or to put it crudely, with a certain mingling of nothingness: whereas they are in God in utter purity.

For all spaceless beings the word WHERE has one meaning; a spaceless being is WHERE IT OPERATES, IT IS IN THE THINGS WHICH RECEIVE THE EFFECTS OF ITS POWER.

and use the uttermost effort of our mind to purify them of the limitations that arise in them from our limitation. That is the way of advance for the mind. Human language is not adequate to utter God, but it is the highest we have and we should use its highest words.

And as we shall see, the direct power the human mind has over its own body, mightier spirits have over all matter.

where was God before the universe existed—fades away into the inconsiderable question: what created thing was being held in existence by the power of God before there was any created thing?

Every living body—vegetable, lower animal, human—has a life principle, a soul.