Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in 1919, Sheen quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. These Fulton J Sheen quotes on mary, weather will motivate you.
Best Fulton J Sheen Quotes
- “The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “There 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.” ~ 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
- “America, 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. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
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“God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.” ~ 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
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“It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “If 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 you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: ‘you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
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“Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.” ~ 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 what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “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. Sheen
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“The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: ‘I am Who am.’ The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: ‘I am who am not.’ Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “God has given different gifts to different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realized that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment; and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
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“When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not whether blood will have to be shed we know not whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.” ~ 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
- “It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
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“Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Most 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. Sheen
- “A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.” ~ Fulton J Sheen Quotes
- “You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
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“Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.”
- “Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.” ~ 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
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“Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
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“Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Patience 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.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “In 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 painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.” ~ Fulton J Sheen Quotes
- “When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
