Fulton J. Sheen

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do.

Fulton J. Sheen

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

Fulton J. Sheen

They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.

Fulton J. Sheen

This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.

Fulton J. Sheen

Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.

Fulton J. Sheen

To create the world cost god nothing; to save it from sin cost his life blood.

Fulton J. Sheen

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Fulton J. Sheen

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

Fulton J. Sheen

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life’s temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

Fulton J. Sheen

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

Fulton J. Sheen