Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
FULTON J. SHEENOur Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEENFreedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
FULTON J. SHEENNever forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
FULTON J. SHEENEvil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
FULTON J. SHEENEach of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
FULTON J. SHEENWhen a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
FULTON J. SHEENNothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
FULTON J. SHEENYou must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
FULTON J. SHEENIt is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
FULTON J. SHEENHearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEENBelieve the incredible and you can do the impossible.
FULTON J. SHEENJealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
FULTON J. SHEENA smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
FULTON J. SHEENThe Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
FULTON J. SHEEN