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
“The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from… — 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
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to… — 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
