Faith Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen

19 Faith quotes by Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen’s entries draw from his rich theological background, presenting faith as a guiding force in both personal devotion and communal life.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has…

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy…

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has…

Fulton J. Sheen

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

Image

“No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens…

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

“I want men who will believe in Me, even when I do not protect them; I will not open the prison doors…

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

“Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing…

Fulton J. Sheen

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

Image

“We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has the future been…

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this…

Fulton J. Sheen

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

Image

“Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on,…

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

Other authors on Faith

More by Fulton J. Sheen

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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

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

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

Image

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Fulton J. Sheen

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

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

Image

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Fulton J. Sheen

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

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

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

Image

“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

Image

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

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image