Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
FULTON J. SHEENEver since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
FULTON J. SHEENIt’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
FULTON J. SHEENLife is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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. SHEENHow 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. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENWe are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEENSometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENIf 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. 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. 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. 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. SHEENHearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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. SHEENThe old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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