Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

This is my compass, my North Star, it gives me comfort and guidance to do what’s best for Arkansas. The Bible is not a rule book for political issues … everybody can see it differently

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

Conscience is God present in man.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Religious institutions ought to have something to say about the normative values of society.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.