Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore… — 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
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
