“There is not a single striving or pursuit or yearning of the human heart, even in the midst of the most sensual pleasures, that is not a dim grasping after the Infinite.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 4, p. 53

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Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895–1979

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