The Wisdom of Fulton Sheen…short videos

the more materialistic a civilization is, the more it is in a hurry.

He was lonely, until he found God.

External circumstances may condition our mental outlook and our dispositions, but they do not cause them.

Our modern world has produced a generation of rich politicians who talk love of the poor, but never prove it in action, and a brood of the poor whose hearts are filled with envy for the rich and covetousness of their money.

Humility is the pathway to knowledge. No scientist would ever learn the secrets of the atom if, in his conceit, he told the atom what he thought it ought to do. Knowledge comes only with humility before the object which can bring us truth.

The egotist standing alone in his self-imagined greatness, lives in the world of a lie, because the truth about himself would puncture his self-inflation.

Repose–true leisure cannot be enjoyed without some recognition of the spiritual world, for the first purpose of repose is the contemplation of the good.

ever before have men possessed so many time-saving devices. Never before have they had so little time for leisure or repose. Yet few of them are aware of this: advertising has created in modern minds the false nation that leisure and not working are the same–that the more we are surrounded by bolts and wheels, switches and gadgets, the more time we have conquered for our own.

The rapidity of communication, the hourly news broadcasts, tomorrow’s news the night before–all these make people live on the surfaces of their souls. The result is that very few live inside themselves. They have their moods determined by the world.

Even Friendships are matured in silence. Friends are made by words, love is preserved in silence. The best friends are those who know how to keep the same silences.