Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

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 forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

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.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy man’s freedom or to deny his personality. But Communism does. Denying God, it reduces man to a robot.

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.