Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

I don't want to end up losing my soul.

If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.

I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling that's so pure, or overwhelming inside of you that your body disfigures to it - contortions match your confusion.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I had always owned them to be the Word of GOD . . . the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by GOD.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

May the peace of God disturb you always.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.

International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.