Fulton J. Sheen on Religion
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Fulton J. Sheen, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Fulton J. Sheen, entry #74039: "No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be."
Attributed to Fulton J. Sheen, entry #229307: "Hitler had no need of God: in his own conceit, he was a god."
9 Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen on Religion
"No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be."
"Hitler had no need of God: in his own conceit, he was a god."
"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."
"o man hates God without first hating himself."
"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."
"Christian theology is, in a certain sense, a psychology, since its primary interest is the soul, the most precious of things. Our Lord balanced a universe against a soul and found the soul worth more than gaining a world."
"There are no plains in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. Furthermore the pose of indifference is only intellectual. The will must choose. And even though an "indifferent" soul does not positively reject the infinite, the infinite rejects it."
"It is assumed by many reformers that the principal and major cause of unhappiness is economic insecurity, but this theory forgets that there are economic problems only because men have not solved the problems of their own souls. Economic disorder is a symptom of spiritual disorder."
"eace of soul implies tranquillity of order, with material things ordered to the body, the body to the soul, the personality to neighbor and to God. Peace of mind is subjective tranquillity — a narrower thing. It requires great moral effort to attain peace of soul, but even those who are indifferent to right and wrong sometimes achieve peace of mind ."