The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.
Fulton J. SheenThere is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."
Fulton J. SheenOnce you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Fulton J. SheenHealth, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
Fulton J. SheenPatience 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.
Fulton J. SheenWhen I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.
Fulton J. Sheen