Top 250 Fulton J. Sheen Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

52. “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

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

54. “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

55. “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

56. “Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

57. “If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

58. “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

59. “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

60. “The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

61. “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

62. “Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

63. “When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!”

— Fulton J. Sheen

64. “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

66. “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

67. “No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

68. “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

69. “To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

70. “A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

75. “I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

76. “The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

78. “We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

79. “It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

80. “Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

81. “Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

82. “Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

83. “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

84. “Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

85. “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

86. “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

87. “Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

88. “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

89. “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

90. “Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

91. “The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another’s unhappiness.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

92. “Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

93. “Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

94. “Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

95. “The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

96. “Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

97. “A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

98. “Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

99. “A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

100. “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