“ 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
“ The porter who took my bag said to me: Everybody knows you; it must be wonderful to be a bishop. And I said to him: Suppose you had four hundred children and ten were very sick and five were dying. Wo… Fulton J. Sheen
“ The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission. Fulton J. Sheen
“ The first part, or the Æsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely, the forms of space and time, which furnish mathematics with their o… Fulton J. Sheen
“ 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
“ The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the physical theory forgets that it has no suc… Fulton J. Sheen
“ The celibate is bound to feel lonely in that atmosphere, but it is a different kind of loneliness that plagues the erotic. The former is tempted because, in the natural order, he is without a partner;… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say, I am too great a sinner to change, or God would not want m… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Someone once told the story of a man who went out from England in a rowboat, came back, and made a great discovery — he discovered England. It is not unlikely that in the near future, the psychologist… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Our Blessed Lord used an illustration of this mystery, You cannot understand the blowing of the wind, but you obey its laws and thus harness its force; so also with the Spirit. Obey the law of the win… Fulton J. Sheen
“ No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with the divine power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray… Fulton J. Sheen
“ In the circuits of the planets there are times when the heavens are under the earth, and in the ways of God with men there was a time when Heaven was under the earth, and that was when Christ was born… Fulton J. Sheen
“ I study philosophy after my dinner, but the dinner is not the cause o my studying philosophy. Fulton J. Sheen
“ He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation. Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted fathe… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Blessed finally are the poor in spirit intellectually. Blessed are the humble, and the teachable who like the Shepherds know they know nothing, or like the Wise Men who know they do not know everythin… Fulton J. Sheen
“ A man who makes himself a godmust hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked. But God can become a childand talk in parables and never lose His Divinity. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of ‘Vanaprastha,’ that is, one retired from the household cares. Fulton J. Sheen
