Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner,… — 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
When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to… — 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
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others. — 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
The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes… — 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
“Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and… — 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
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your… — 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
“Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?” — 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
