Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood. — 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… — 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
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — 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
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 slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from… — 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
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and… — 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
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
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
The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There is only one thin in the world that is really our own-and that is our will...Our will is ours for all… — 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
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Burning the candle at both ends for God's sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and… — 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 world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or… — 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
