Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Deep sorrow does not come because one has violated a law, but only if one knows he has broken off the relationship… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Why did Our Blessed Lord use bread and wine as the elements of this Memorial? First of all, because no two substances… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt complex” because He… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Christian soul knows it needs Divine Help and therefore turns to Him Who loved us even while we were yet sinners.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for personal repentance but only public… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing… — 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
