Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

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.