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“[T]here is a tremendous egotism and conceit in those popular articles and lectures entitled,"My Idea of Religion," or "My Idea of God." An individual religion can be as misleading and uninformed as an individual astronomy or an individual mathematics.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 4, p. 59

“In contrast to the pride of those who deny their guilt to escape self-criticism is the humility of God, who made a world which added not to His glory and then made man to criticize Him.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 5, p. 85

“[H]e is of the intelligentsia (which means he has been educated beyond his intelligence).”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 6, p. 105

“One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Angels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaa7I44gkgc <br class="br">Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)

“You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Angels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3r701k2dx8 <br class="br">Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)

“If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things with life, it is because they are reflections of the life of God; if there are beings endowed with intellect and will — like men and angels — it's because they are a participation of the Sovereign Intellect which is God.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Religion Without God (1928). p. 90

“All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 2, p. 24

“We justify want of faith by saying, "I don't go to church, but I am better than those who do," as one might say, "I don't pay taxes or serve the nation, but I am better than those who do."”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 6, p. 113

“We find only what we seek: nature has many secrets to give us, but she will not surrender them until we sit down patiently before her and obey her laws. Only by such submission do we receive.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 5, p. 85

“All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life — I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Treasure in Clay : The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen (1980)

“By denying any ultimate standard outside of self, one can escape all self-blame and go through life on a perpetual mission of face saving.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 6, p. 103

“The very good never believe themselves very good, because they are judging themselves by the Ideal.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 6, p. 116

“The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Retreat to Priests, Washington, D.C., p. 19, quoted in Bernard Hayes, C.R., To Live as Jesus Did (Locust Valley, N.Y.: Living Flame Press, 1981), p. 108. There is no book by Sheen with the title Retreat to Priests. Hayes is presumably quoting from a transcription of Sheen's 1974 retreat for priests of the Washington diocese. This was recorded on reel-to-reel tape and later issued in nine 60-minute tapes under the title Renewal and Reconciliation.

“Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Program 19
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)

“Hitler had no need of God: in his own conceit, he was a god.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: The Armor of God (1943), Ch. 1, p. 4

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Though Sheen is quoted as saying this in Look magazine (14 December 1955) the earliest located declaration of this witticism was by John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir on 21 February 1936: "I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support."
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“The man who has never made a mistake has no need of an eraser; just so the man who has never done anything wrong has no need of a Redeemer.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: The Armor of God (1943), Ch. 1, p. 4

“Atheism is not a doctrine; it is a cry of wrath.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: The Armor of God (1943), Ch. 1, p. 2