Top 100 Essential Fulton Sheen Quotes that will move your soul
Fulton Sheen Quotes for inspiration and reflection in your daily life
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“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather, it is “timing”; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”
“A good character, when established, is not easily overthrown by any temptation.”
“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God, people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty, life is unfinished.”
“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”
“Every time you look at a cross, Christ seems to say to you, ‘I love you.'”
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil.”
“A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
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“Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
“A picture of a man dying on a cross can be a picture of hope.”
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
“The only way to overcome error is to keep the truth in front of it.”
“If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.”
“Pain, suffering, and failure are not obstacles but opportunities.”
“Peace is the fruit of justice, which is the result of charity.”
“The world is like a giant puzzle with pieces that fit together only in the Christian vision.”
“Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.”
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
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“Patience is power. With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk.”
“Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace.”
“A soul does not think. A soul is a thought.”
“The only real sin is to deny love, especially the love of God.”
“Wasted time is worse than wasted money.”
“The measure of love is to love without measure.”
“A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.”
“There are two ways to get enough: One is to accumulate more, and the other is to desire less.”
“There are many who say they will forgive, but few who will forget.”
“The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.”
Many Fulton Sheen quotes come from his famed television series “Life is Worth Living”.
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“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
“It is easy to hate, and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get.”
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
“Real love stories never have endings.”
“Faith makes things possible, not easy.”
“The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.”
“The love of Christ is neither to be feared nor to be rejected; rather, it is to be received and accepted with an open heart.”
“A man who no longer believes in God, no longer believes in himself.”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
“The trouble with our times is that we focus on the temporal, rather than the eternal.”
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“If you want your life to make a difference, make it simple and keep it simple.”
“Heaven is not a state of mind; it is a state of being.”
“Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.”
“We can think without acting, but we cannot act without thinking.”
“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
“True freedom lies not in the absence of restraint but in the presence of discipline.”
“If you want the world to be better, start with yourself.”
“The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.”
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“Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil, and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But there is a point where tolerance ceases to be a virtue.”
“It’s not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting, but it has been found difficult and left untried.”
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is in itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.”
“You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
“It is easy to find truth; it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.”
“Peace is not the absence of war; it is the presence of justice.”
“God does not love us because we are good; God loves us because He is good.”
“Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God, people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty, life is unfinished.”
“In the heart of Jesus, which was pierced, the kingdom of heaven and the land of earth are joined.”
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“A man who governs his passions is a master of the world. We must either command them or be enslaved to them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.”
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil.”
“A life is not an accident. It is a responsibility.”
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”
“The greatest power in the world is not the atomic bomb but the spiritual force of the human soul.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“A love without criticism is a love without depth.”
“The same sun that hardens clay also melts butter. And the same Gospel that hardens some hearts softens others.”
“The first step to humility is to be honest about one’s own self.”
“If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
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“The world tells us to seek success, power, and money; God tells us to seek humility, service, and love.”
“A true love is always one that is given unconditionally.”
“A mind is no longer in service when it is serving itself.”
“Heaven is a banquet, and life is a banquet too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.”
“The heart is like a balloon: It never soars to the heavens while held down by the string of self.”
“Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.”
“Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.”
“The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white host.”
“The Blessed Sacrament is the first and last sacrament, the beginning and the end of every sacrament, the sacrament in which the encounter with Christ is accomplished and which anticipates the final encounter with Him.”
“The only way to peace is through forgiveness.”
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“True freedom is not the right to do what we want, but the power to do what we ought.”
“Love is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.”
“God has become man so that man might become God-like.”
“The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble man his blessings.”
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
“The world is like a giant puzzle with pieces that fit together only in the Christian vision.”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
“Character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
“Sin consists not in desiring one thing too much but in desiring something other than the kingdom of God.”
“The secret of happiness is to give it away.”
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“It is easy to find a lover; it is difficult to be a lover.”
“Real love stories never have endings.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.”
“It’s not that our love grows cold; it’s that our hearts grow weary.”
“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own—even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.”
“Love is not a feeling; it is a decision, a choice, an act of the will.”
“The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity toward all, especially toward the lowly and the poor.”
“A soul does not think. A soul is a thought.” “The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to have it make some difference that we lived at all.”
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