Fulton J. Sheen

How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in god. It is his love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.

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

If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.

Fulton J. Sheen

If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards god.

Fulton J. Sheen

If you know where you are, you do not know how fast you are moving, and if you know how fast you are moving, you do not know where you are.

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

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Fulton J. Sheen

It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy of our day.

Fulton J. Sheen

It takes eternity to make a man despair.

Fulton J. Sheen

It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.

Fulton J. Sheen