Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinni...

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which sta...

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrend...

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perf...

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrat...

The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Bab...

Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation;...

Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed...

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes th...

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman ...

The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.

Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them w...

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a ma...

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Hi...

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every wor...

No man hates God without first hating himself.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not i...

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tole...

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br...

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right t...

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make...

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to...

Our poor human heart is flawed: it is like a cake without the frosting: the first two acts of the th...

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad...

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You...

All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine ...

God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to anothe...

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift fr...

If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social sys...

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young...

Though the Son of Man expressed His federation with humanity, He was very careful to note that He wa...

Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil ...

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that incli...

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? ...

In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes fro...

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right t...

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often prai...

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; ...

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat...

It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go d...

Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is "timing"it waits on the right ti...

Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and ther...

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Go back to that night when Divine Light, in order to illumine the darkness of men, tabernacled Himse...

Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a ...

It is not so much what people suffer that makes the world mysterious; it is rather how much they mis...

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from sho...

Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost alwa...

Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to mov...

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did ...

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact w...

The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in do...

God’s side is determined not by geography, but by those who do His will. If Germans, English, Japane...

It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the e...

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of...

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always...

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic...

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are alw...

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ...

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ...

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ult...

Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and...

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the paren...

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understa...

The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious...

Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's lov...

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view o...

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reas...

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were...

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers fo...

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and diss...

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly...

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they ...

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kin...

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to ...

Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and ...

Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal...

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him...

It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man...

The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punish...

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what ...

The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ...

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emoti...

When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...