Category: Fulton Sheen

There are angels near you to guide and protect you if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

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

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

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

If, in his pride, he considers God a challenge, he will deny him; if God becomes a man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.

Politeness is a way of showing externally the internal regard we have for others. Good manners are the shadows cast by virtues.

Our intellects do not make the truth; they attain it; they discover it.

Character is, to some extent, judged by what a man does with his falls. A pig falls into the mud and stays there; a sheep falls in and climbs out.

Finite intelligence needs many words to express ideas, but God speaks once and for all within HImself–one single Word which reaches the abyss of all things that are known and can be known. In that Word of God are hidden all the treasures of wisdom, all the secrets of sciences, all the designs of the arts, and all the knowledge of mankind. But this knowledge, compared to the Word, is only the feebles of a broken syllable.

If Death was the supreme moment Christ lived, it was the one thing He wished to have remembered. He did not ask that men write down His Words in a Scripture; He did not ask that His kindness to the poor be recorded in history, but He did ask that men remember His Death. And so that its memory might not be any haphazard narrative on the part of men, He instituted the precise way it should be recalled. The memorial was instituted the night before He died, which has since been called “The Last Supper.” He was offering Himself as a Victim to be immolated, and that men might never forget that “greater love than this no man hat, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” He gave the divine command to the Church: “Do this for a commemoration of me.”