Fulton J. Sheen

Science is not wisdom.

— Fulton J. Sheen

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Man is incurably curious.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

— Fulton J. Sheen

All love craves unity.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

— Fulton J. Sheen

All our anxieties relate to time.

— Fulton J. Sheen

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

— Fulton J. Sheen

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

— Fulton J. Sheen

No man hates God without first hating himself.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

— Fulton J. Sheen

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

— Fulton J. Sheen

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

— Fulton J. Sheen

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction.…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach…

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“In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a…

— Fulton J. Sheen

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

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

“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit…

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“Truth does grow, but it grows homogeneously, like an acorn into an oak; it does not swing in the breeze, like a…

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“As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in…

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“Go back to that night when Divine Light, in order to illumine the darkness of men, tabernacled Himself in the world He…

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The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“God’s side is determined not by geography, but by those who do His will. If Germans, English, Japanese, and Americans prayed right,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to love Him above parents,…

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“Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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