Top 280 Quotes & Sayings by Fulton J. Sheen - Page 5

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

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 our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.

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.

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

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

All our anxieties relate to time.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.

Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

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.

Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of nature is symbolic, and there is no necessary connection between the phenomena and our fictions.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of private property in many hands. Instead, monopolistic capitalism concentrates productive wealth among a few men, allowing the rest to become a vast proletariat.

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

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.

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

There is only one thin in the world that is really our own-and that is our will...Our will is ours for all eternity. That is why the most precious gift that one can give is another in his will.

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

All love craves unity.

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.

If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.

Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.

for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.