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.

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

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.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.