There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
FULTON J. SHEENTo create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
FULTON J. SHEENLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENMost of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
FULTON J. SHEENA woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
FULTON J. SHEENJudge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
FULTON J. SHEENHumility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
FULTON J. SHEENThere are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
FULTON J. SHEENHearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEENLiberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
FULTON J. SHEENThere are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
FULTON J. SHEENLet those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
FULTON J. SHEENAll badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
FULTON J. SHEENEvery moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
FULTON J. SHEENOur happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
FULTON J. SHEEN