“What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.” — 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
“Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. — 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 applies… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But… — 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
