Quotes from Fulton J. Sheen

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.

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'!

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.

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.

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

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

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

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

No man hates God without first hating himself.

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

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

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

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

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

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

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

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.