Fulton J. SheenEver since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find. ✨ FULTON J. SHEEN (1949). PEACE OF SOUL371Humanity
Fulton J. SheenAll love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the s… ▶351HumanityLove
Fulton J. SheenIf you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if yo… ▶351LifeTime
Fulton J. SheenIf the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State shou… ▶362HumanityPolitics
Fulton J. SheenHis words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds tha… ▶375HumanityLifeLove
Fulton J. SheenThere is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.321Reflection
Fulton J. SheenLove burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others. ✨ Fulton J. Sheen (2008). Life of Christ, p.275, Image343LifeLove
Fulton J. SheenTo value only what can be sold is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of t… ▶354LoveTime
Fulton J. SheenWe are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.321Politics
Fulton J. SheenLove was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are spa… ▶355HumanityLove
Fulton J. SheenThe way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.344Life
Fulton J. SheenThere are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.322HumanityPolitics
Fulton J. SheenNeither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are… ▶377LoveReading
Fulton J. SheenHead knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. ✨ Fulton J. Sheen (2008). Life of Christ, p.40, Image344Life
Fulton J. SheenHumility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.377Reading
Fulton J. SheenMoral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.345Thought
Fulton J. SheenIn every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painfu… ▶345LoveSadnessThought
Fulton J. SheenAmerica, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. O… ▶301ThoughtTruth
Fulton J. SheenPrayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.345Truth
Fulton J. SheenHearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.367Death
Fulton J. SheenThe only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.367HumorTime
Fulton J. SheenPrayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.335Politics
Fulton J. SheenThe higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.346LoveThought
Fulton J. SheenThe history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.313Humanity
Fulton J. SheenSo the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscri… ▶357HumanityLove
Fulton J. SheenThe power of the rosary is beyond description.3710Politics
Fulton J. SheenThe world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but … ▶281Life
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 … ▶292Life
Fulton J. SheenWhen you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.314Hope
Fulton J. SheenIf you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.337Humanity
