Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”

“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”

“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”

“Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.”

“Hearing nuns confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”

“There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do”

“Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.”

“Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.”

“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Hearing nuns confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

If you dont behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.