Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

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

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

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

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders.

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

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.