Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

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

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

All our anxieties relate to time.

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.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

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

The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.

Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

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

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.