Fulton J. Sheen

Obedience to truth is obedience to love.

Fulton J. Sheen

Patience is power. Patience is not 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

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Fulton J. Sheen

Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.

Fulton J. Sheen

The best friends are those who know how to keep the same silences.

Fulton J. Sheen

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

Fulton J. Sheen

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

Fulton J. Sheen

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them.

Fulton J. Sheen

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does not understand teaching.

Fulton J. Sheen

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

Fulton J. Sheen