Our 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. SHEENPatience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
-
-
Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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 noble, we become noble.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
The 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. SHEEN -
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
There 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. SHEEN -
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
FULTON J. SHEEN