Category: Fulton Sheen

Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God.

A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor.

The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.

Let no one think he can be totally indifferent to God in this life and suddenly develop a capacity for Him at the moment of death.

We lose our souls not only be the evil we do but also by the good we leave undone.

Truth does grow, but it grows homogenously, like an acorn into an oak…The nature of certain things is fixed, and none more so than the nature of truth. Truth may be contradicted a thousand times, but that only proves that it is strong enough to survive a thousand assaults.

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.

The true notion is that the material universe is a sign or an indication of what God is. We look at the purity of the snowflake and we see something of the goodness of God. The world is full of poetry: it is sin which turns it into prose.

Our blessed Lord was hopeful about humanity. He always saw men the way He originally designed them. He saw through the surce, grime, and dirt to the real man underneath. He never identified a person with sin. He saw sin a something alien and foreign which did not belong to man. Sin had mastered man but he could be freed from it to be his real self. Just as every mother sees her own image and likeness on her child’s face, so God always saw the divine image and likeness beneath us.

The more you are led by God’s love, the more you become yourself and it s all done without ever losing your freedom.