110+ Fulton J. Sheen Quotes On Education, Art And World

Fulton J. Sheen was an American clergyman, author, and radio and television evangelist from the mid-20th century. He was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church in 1919 and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1951. He was best known for his preaching and his work on television and radio, which earned him the nickname "The Bishop of the Air". Following is our collection on famous quotes by Fulton J. Sheen on education, life, love.

Top 10 Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

1. There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
2. Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
3. Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
4. Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
5. There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."
6. God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
7. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
8. All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
9. The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
10. A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

Fulton J. Sheen Image Quotes

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host. — Fulton J. Sheen

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible. — Fulton J. Sheen

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Short Quotes

• Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
• I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
• There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.
• We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
• It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
• The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
• Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
• The power of the rosary is beyond description.
• Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Fulton J. Sheen Quotes About Life

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

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles. — Fulton J. Sheen

As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. — Fulton J. Sheen

Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's! — Fulton J. Sheen

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. — Fulton J. Sheen

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. — Fulton J. Sheen

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it. — Fulton J. Sheen

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures — Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Quotes About Love

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men. — Fulton J. Sheen

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. — Fulton J. Sheen

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others. — 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

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. — Fulton J. Sheen

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion. — Fulton J. Sheen

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. — Fulton J. Sheen

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world. — Fulton J. Sheen

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive. — Fulton J. Sheen

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Quotes About World

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

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

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more. — Fulton J. Sheen

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us. — Fulton J. Sheen

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy man's freedom or to deny his personality. But Communism does. Denying God, it reduces man to a robot. — Fulton J. Sheen

There is only one thin in the world that is really our own-and that is our will...Our will is ours for all eternity. That is why the most precious gift that one can give is another in his will. — 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

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts. — Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Quotes About Prayer

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet. — Fulton J. Sheen

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship. — Fulton J. Sheen

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world. — 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

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads — Fulton J. Sheen

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. — Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Quotes About God

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy. — Fulton J. Sheen

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find. — Fulton J. Sheen

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking. — Fulton J. Sheen

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul. — Fulton J. Sheen

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'! — Fulton J. Sheen

God has given different gifts to different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realized that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority. — Fulton J. Sheen

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. — Fulton J. Sheen

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God. — Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Quotes About Christ

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste. — Fulton J. Sheen

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. — Fulton J. Sheen

Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments. — Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Quotes About Inspiring

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible. — 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

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book. — Fulton J. Sheen

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. — Fulton J. Sheen

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. — Fulton J. Sheen

To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature. — Fulton J. Sheen

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves. — Fulton J. Sheen

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation. — Fulton J. Sheen

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things. — Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Famous Quotes And Sayings

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host. — 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

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen

Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment; and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey. — Fulton J. Sheen

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. — Fulton J. Sheen

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own. — Fulton J. Sheen

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. — Fulton J. Sheen

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. — Fulton J. Sheen

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it. — Fulton J. Sheen

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. — Fulton J. Sheen

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable. — Fulton J. Sheen

If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human. — Fulton J. Sheen

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to "rule over the earth"; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God. — Fulton J. Sheen

When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen. — Fulton J. Sheen

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it. — Fulton J. Sheen

The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order. — Fulton J. Sheen

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself. — Fulton J. Sheen

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion. — Fulton J. Sheen

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients. — Fulton J. Sheen

Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it. — Fulton J. Sheen

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful. — Fulton J. Sheen

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King. — Fulton J. Sheen

Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness. — Fulton J. Sheen

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong. — Fulton J. Sheen

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance. — Fulton J. Sheen

No man hates God without first hating himself. — Fulton J. Sheen

The Rosary is the book of the blind. — Fulton J. Sheen

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp. — Fulton J. Sheen

The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self. — Fulton J. Sheen

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others. — Fulton J. Sheen

All love craves unity. — Fulton J. Sheen

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds. — Fulton J. Sheen

Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs. — Fulton J. Sheen

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. — Fulton J. Sheen

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. — Fulton J. Sheen

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. — Fulton J. Sheen

If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith. — Fulton J. Sheen

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity. — Fulton J. Sheen

The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor. — Fulton J. Sheen

If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels. — Fulton J. Sheen

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. — Fulton J. Sheen

When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts. — Fulton J. Sheen

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves! — Fulton J. Sheen

The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is something more than a knowledge of matter the soul craves. — Fulton J. Sheen

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. — Fulton J. Sheen

Life Lessons by Fulton J. Sheen

1. Fulton J. Sheen taught that faith is an essential part of life, and that it can be used to bring peace and joy to people.
2. He also emphasized the importance of living a life of charity and compassion, and of loving and serving others.
3. He believed that by living a life of faith and service, we can make the world a better place.