The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the… — 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
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
“Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a curiosity, is now a component… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Christian soul knows it needs Divine Help and therefore turns to Him Who loved us even while we were yet sinners.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Yet what moved Our Blessed Lord to invective was not badness but just such self-righteousness as this…He said that the harlots and… — 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
