“ Pope John Paul II, who has a mystique without a politique. He has no armies, no publicity directors, no propaganda machine and comes from the smallest state in all the world. Fulton J. Sheen
“ In the Christian order, it is not the important who are essential, nor those who do great things who are really great. A king is no nobler in the sight of God than a peasant. The head of government wi… Fulton J. Sheen
“ If then Death was the supreme moment for which Christ lived, it was therefore the one thing He wished to have remembered. He did not ask that men should write down His Words into a Scripture; He did n… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Here is the answer, after all these years, to the mysterious words in the Gospel of the Incarnation which stated that Our Blessed Mother laid her firstborn in the manger. Did that mean that Our Blesse… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Here is the answer to the riddle of love. Love implies relation. If lived in isolation, it becomes selfishness; if absorbed in collectivity, it loses its personality and, therefore, the right to love. Fulton J. Sheen
“ 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… Fulton J. Sheen
“ FREUDIANISM interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man. Fulton J. Sheen
“ 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… Fulton J. Sheen
“ As the no of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well. Fulton J. Sheen
“ As our Lord said, Where your treasure is, there is your heart also. Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things. Fulton J. Sheen
“ As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God’s love and tempe… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction from everything except the mental state which prompted t… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content. Fulton J. Sheen
“ A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own. Fulton J. Sheen
“ A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked. Fulton J. Sheen
“ A deep spiritual bond exists between Christians, Moslems and Jews, for as Pope Pius XII said, all Christians are spiritual Semites because we are descended spiritually from Abraham. Fulton J. Sheen
“ A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor. On Fulton J. Sheen
“ There has sprung up a disturbing indifference to truth, and a tendency to regard the useful as the true, and the impractical as the false. The man who can make up his mind when proofs are presented to… Fulton J. Sheen
