Top 250 Fulton J. Sheen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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2. “You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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3. “If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

4. “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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5. “Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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6. “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.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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7. “Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

8. “Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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9. “Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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10. “Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

11. “Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

12. “Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

13. “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

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14. “Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

15. “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.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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16. “Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

17. “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

18. “The power of the rosary is beyond description.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

19. “The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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20. “God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

21. “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

22. “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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23. “Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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24. “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

25. “How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?”

— Fulton J. Sheen

26. “It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

27. “Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

28. “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.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

32. “There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.””

— Fulton J. Sheen

33. “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

34. “If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

35. “Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

36. “The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

37. “Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

38. “The reason we’re bored is because we don’t love anything.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

43. “We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

44. “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

45. “All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

47. “The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be “secured” – but with no accompanying responsibility – is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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48. “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

49. “As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

50. “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

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