Bishop Fulton Sheen
@Bishop_Sheen
Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen: TV personality, radio host, theologian, author, Emmy award winner, humble servant of Christ and His Church.
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
Our generation is not seeking for truth, but for self-expression.
A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly.
The danger today is not in the atomic bomb but in the hearts of men
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.
Pain without Christ is suffering; pain with Christ is sacrifice.
I am worried about America! I am not so much worried about its politics and economics, important though they be: I am worried about its soul.
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her.
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.
Bishop Sheen preaching on the issues facing America
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
The world might have expected the Son of God to be born—if He was to be born at all—in an inn. A stable would be the last place in the world where one would have looked for Him. Divinity is always where one least expects to find it