Fulton J Sheen summarized life and living in his simple quote ‘Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.’ An American bishop of the Catholic Church, Sheen claimed limelight for his work in television and radio. Despite taking the religious route, he did not shy away from trying new avenues and new ventures. After making a mark in the world of books, Sheen progressed to radio wherein he started a weekly show, ‘The Catholic Hour’. Impressed by the phenomenal success in radio, Sheen switched to television wherein he came up with the show, ‘Life is Worth Living’. The show had him speaking to the camera and discussing moral issues of the day. He often used blackboard drawings to help understand his topic to the viewers. Through his show, he preached the importance of moral values in life and touched various controversial subjects like communism and socialism. Sheen’s contribution to televised preaching has made him one of the first televangelists. A powerful preacher, Sheen left behind a rich legacy that includes some of the highly meaningful quotes and sayings that are sure to make you ponder. Check Fulton J Sheen’s collection of quotes and thoughts to get a new perspective about life.
Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Fulton J. Sheen
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
Fulton J. Sheen
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
Fulton J. Sheen
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
Fulton J. Sheen
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
Fulton J. Sheen
A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Fulton J. Sheen
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.
Fulton J. Sheen
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Fulton J. Sheen
If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little "kinks".
We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.
Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.
Fulton J. Sheen
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
Fulton J. Sheen
Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing to us, not those who are hateful.
The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!
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.
The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.
Fulton J. Sheen
To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.
Fulton J. Sheen
"Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys. To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at the end; it is that which influences every moment of the now.
Fulton J. Sheen
The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.
Fulton J. Sheen
The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble, his blessings.
Fulton J. Sheen
If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.
This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.
Fulton J. Sheen
The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.
To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy.
One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity.
Fulton J. Sheen
The lover of God never knows the words “too much.” Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.
Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.
Fulton J. Sheen
Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
Fulton J. Sheen
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
Fulton J. Sheen
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
Fulton J. Sheen
The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.
Fulton J. Sheen
The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.
Fulton J. Sheen
This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.
Fulton J. Sheen
In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.
The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars
