I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts. — 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
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. — 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
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational… — 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
Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move… — 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
Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors… — 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… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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 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
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,… — 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
