Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do
The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.
If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
There is only one thin in the world that is really our own-and that is our will...Our will is ours for all eternity. That is why the most precious gift that one can give is another in his will.
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
