“Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it… — 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
Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to… — 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
The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has… — 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
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which… — 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
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time… — 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
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
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
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
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
