God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: “God loves me!” And then add: “And I will try to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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
“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share 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 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… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other… — 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
The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as… — 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;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?” — 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
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks… — 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
“Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punished with a plague of fiery serpents,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Our poor human heart is flawed: it is like a cake without the frosting: the first two acts of the theatre without… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to love Him above parents,… — 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
