Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not… — 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
“Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No… — 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
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
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
