I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
-
-
Never 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. SHEEN -
All 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. SHEEN -
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Freedom 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. SHEEN -
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
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?
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Let 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. SHEEN -
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
There 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. SHEEN