Fulton J. Sheen Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

Fulton J. Sheen

Men, Thinking, Order

124 Copy quote
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Fulton J. Sheen

Frustration, Men, Luxury

67 Copy quote
Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

Fulton J. Sheen

Happiness, Perfect, Want

25 Copy quote
Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Fulton J. Sheen

Taken, Cost, Welcome

33 Copy quote
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

Fulton J. Sheen

Mother, Children, Men

51 Copy quote
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

Fulton J. Sheen

Attitude, Punishment, Errors

46 Copy quote
The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

Fulton J. Sheen

Pride, Thinking, Blood

37 Copy quote
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

Children, Parent, Heaven

56 Copy quote
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

Jesus, Son, Birth

Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.590, Image

38 Copy quote
Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders.

Fulton J. Sheen

Wise, Religious, Kings

26 Copy quote
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Fulton J. Sheen

Charity, Given, Left

43 Copy quote
Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God forces. We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.

Fulton J. Sheen

Wisdom, Party, Men

12 Copy quote
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

Fulton J. Sheen

Ifs

32 Copy quote
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

Fulton J. Sheen

Men, Doe, Bigs

26 Copy quote
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

Fulton J. Sheen

Suicide, Morning, Bus

6 Copy quote
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Fulton J. Sheen

Friday, Easter, Sunday

15 Copy quote
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

Science, Men, Enemy

17 Copy quote
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

Fulton J. Sheen

Inspiration, Adversity, Sunshine

Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.22, Image

28 Copy quote
Love 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 sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love, God, Flames

FULTON J. SHEEN (1957). “LOVE, MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN”

11 Copy quote
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Fulton J. Sheen

Life, Catholic, Deeds

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (1936). “The Moral Universe”, p.52, Aeterna Press

14 Copy quote
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

91 Copy quote
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Fulton J. Sheen

Judging, Catholic, Church

18 Copy quote
Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Fulton J. Sheen

Generosity, Giving, Catholic

13 Copy quote
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

Fulton J. Sheen

Sex, Modern, Subjects

5 Copy quote
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

Philosophy, Two, Catholic

56 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Mother Angelica

Timothy M. Dolan

Francis Spellman

Fulton J. Sheen

Follow

Born: May 8, 1895
Died: December 9, 1979
Occupation: Televangelist
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics