No man hates God without first hating himself. Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen More Quotes From Fulton J. Sheen The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security. Fulton J. Sheen responsibilitywisdommen Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God. Fulton J. Sheen selfroomsneeds Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it. Fulton J. Sheen acquisitionsoulhands Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it. Fulton J. Sheen catholicchurchjudging Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself. Fulton J. Sheen denialdifferencesevil Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol? Fulton J. Sheen mathematicsrelationreality How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it? Fulton J. Sheen menscienceenemy Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts. Fulton J. Sheen doeheartworld Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. Fulton J. Sheen catholicdeedslife It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it. Fulton J. Sheen hardereasyfaces Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. Fulton J. Sheen logicfinalsmen Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world. Fulton J. Sheen fastingprayerworld No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity. Fulton J. Sheen faithgodbeauty A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love. Fulton J. Sheen takenanimalmen As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. Fulton J. Sheen holy-eucharistbaptismmen Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world Fulton J. Sheen religiousprayerjesus Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's! Fulton J. Sheen journeymaytwo Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. Fulton J. Sheen castingreliefprayer Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything. Fulton J. Sheen creditmindpeople 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. Fulton J. Sheen cakeessentialsmen
