Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

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

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

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

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

No man hates God without first hating himself.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

The power of the rosary is beyond description.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.