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. SHEENIf you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
-
-
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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 -
When 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. SHEEN -
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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 -
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 -
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Each 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. SHEEN -
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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 -
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
FULTON J. SHEEN






