Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a curiosity, is now a component… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars;” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has the future been… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be… — 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
