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.

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

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

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

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.

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.

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

No man hates God without first hating himself.

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.