Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

True progress consists in submitting the human element which corrupts liberty, to the divine element which purifies it. Society has followed a different path in looking upon the empire of faith as dead; and in proclaiming the empire of reason and the will of man.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

Freedom is a choice. The grace of God abounds, and man is nonetheless free.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.

We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.

I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

Relationship is the difference between grace and law.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.