Fulton J. Sheen

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

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

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

Fulton J. Sheen

Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.

Fulton J. Sheen

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Fulton J. Sheen

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

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Fulton J. Sheen

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen

Sometimes the only way the good lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Fulton J. Sheen

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Fulton J. Sheen