Fulton J. Sheen

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it…

— Fulton J. Sheen

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

— Fulton J. Sheen

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away;…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and…

— Fulton J. Sheen

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

— Fulton J. Sheen

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is…

— Fulton J. Sheen

When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Perhaps the solicitation to pamper the way men live is too strong for them, for much of the business of philosophy at…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

— Fulton J. Sheen

The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“In the circuits of the planets there are times when the heavens are under the earth, and in the ways of God…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind…

— Fulton J. Sheen