“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial… — 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
“Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for property as a prolongation… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Even in the realm of pure mathematics, the mathematician may use any set of symbols he desires within any given region of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go down; it is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. — 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
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
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
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
