“For the Angelic Doctor, the reason of conceptual knowledge is just the contrary! It is not his distance from the animal that… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
