Fulton J. Sheen

Quotes

• “Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the ...”
• “In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of p...”
• “There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has...”
• “Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the ...”
• “Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to th...”
• “Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of love; Magdalen was ther...”
• “Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult ...”
• “Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wo...”
• “If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; a...”
• “There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit...”
• “As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation wi...”
• “The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of sc...”
• “Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but Himself...”
• “When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more ...”
• “The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love...”
• “God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a differen...”
• “Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychol...”
• “The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy o...”
• “America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and w...”
• “Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good...”
• “The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in th...”
• “Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never disco...”
• “In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with...”
• “Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when...”
• “If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to wors...”
• “Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things ...”
• “To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the ...”
• “In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the...”
• “All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so ...”
• “In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is...”
• “To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him ...”
• “In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be an...”
• “Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We ...”
• “The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and t...”
• “We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; ...”
• “The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends ...”
• “Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, bu...”
• “Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on insid...”
• “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the ...”
• “Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the ...”
• “Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is "timing"it waits on the right time to act,for the ri...”
• “To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be w...”
• “If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself ...”
• “It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection ...”
• “There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find H...”
• “Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something go...”
• “Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.”
• “Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.”
• “Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.”
• “Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.”