“Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it prevent him from realizing his desires; it even reduces his capacity for sin, his opportunities for vice. In that enforced detachment from evil, which is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic loyalties; it will revive shepherds… — 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
