Top 250 Fulton J. Sheen Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

102. “The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

103. “A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

104. “Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

105. “Science is not wisdom.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

106. “Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

107. “God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised 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

108. “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

109. “Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

110. “Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

111. “Man is incurably curious.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

112. “If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

113. “Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays are to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes; and the closer it gets to the center, the stronger it becomes.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

114. “Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

115. “Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

116. “Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

117. “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

118. “Atheism is not a doctrine, it is a cry of wrath.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

119. “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

120. “Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

121. “God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless “saint.” Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

122. “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

123. “All love craves unity.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

124. “One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

125. “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

126. “Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

127. “The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

128. “There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

129. “The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

130. “In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

131. “We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

132. “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

133. “Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

134. “Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

135. “By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

136. “All our anxieties relate to time.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

137. “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

138. “Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

139. “Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

140. “Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not as we would like to be in the eyes of the public; not as our press notices say we are, but as we are in the sight of God when we examine our conscience.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

141. “If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

142. “Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

143. “The Rosary is the book of the blind.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

144. “The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

145. “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

146. “Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

147. “Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

148. “Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

149. “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

150. “She satisfies my ideal.” Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be “love at first sight” is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a dream.”

— Fulton J. Sheen