God Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen

No man hates God without first hating himself.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?”

— Fulton J. Sheen

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

— Fulton J. Sheen

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

“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

“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

“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

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“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

“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

“When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to love Him above parents,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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