In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“God’s side is determined not by geography, but by those who do His will. If Germans, English, Japanese, and Americans prayed right,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. — 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
