“ Since lower nature had fallen through man, it was fitting that all lower nature should be reconciled to God through man. That is why there was an Incarnation instead of pantheism. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Reading from St. John Chrysostom that the life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. The reason he gave was that the holiness which the monk preserves in the desert must be pre… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Where will the capacity for heaven come from if we have neglected it on earth? A man cannot suddenly walk into a lecture room on higher mathematics and be thrilled by its equations if all during life… Fulton J. Sheen
“ What the new morality resolves itself into is this: You are wrong if you do a thing you do not feel like doing; and you are right if you do a thing you feel like doing. Such a morality is based not on… Fulton J. Sheen
“ We shrink therefore from God, knowing that He wants to enrich our being, rather than our having—that He wishes to elevate our nature, not to submerge and lose it in trifles. He has called us to the su… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Sex understood in the modern way is Eros-love severed from responsibility; it is desire without obligation. Because it is lawless desire, it is therefore Godless desire. That is why eroticism and athe… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Perhaps the solicitation to pamper the way men live is too strong for them, for much of the business of philosophy at the present time seems to be to give high-sounding names to cover the sins of men.… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an environment of love. Fulton J. Sheen
“ No worldly mind would ever have suspected that He Who could make the sun warm the earth would one day have need of an ox and an ass to warm Him with their breath; that He Who, in the language of Scrip… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Make this experiment whether you believe in God or not. At your first opportunity, stop in a Catholic Church for a visit. You need not believe, as we Catholics do, that Our Lord is really and truly pr… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Let those souls who think their work has no value recognize that by fulfilling their insignificant tasks out of a love of God, those tasks assume a supernatural worth. The aged who bear the taunts of… Fulton J. Sheen
“ How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighb… Fulton J. Sheen
“ God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy. Fulton J. Sheen
“ For the Angelic Doctor, the reason of conceptual knowledge is just the contrary! It is not his distance from the animal that renders abstraction necessary; it is his distance from God. Abstraction is… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Celibacy is like poetry keeping the idea ever in mind like a dream; but marriage uses chisel and brush, concentrating more on marble and canvas. Celibacy jumps to a conclusion like an intuition; marri… Fulton J. Sheen
“ Carnal love, despite its seeming intimacy, often can become an exchange of egotisms. The ego is projected onto the other person and what is loved is not the other person, but the pleasure the other pe… Fulton J. Sheen
“ By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's. Fulton J. Sheen
“ Insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is. Fulton J. Sheen
“ As the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves. Fulton J. Sheen
