When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication… — 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
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
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who… — 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 nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his… — 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
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
