Fulton J. Sheen Quotes - Page 9

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

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

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

Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.

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.

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

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

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.

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

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

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

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!

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

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.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

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.

Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.

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