Quotes from Fulton J. Sheen

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

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

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

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

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God's law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to rule over the earth; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

for a woman, love is its own reason. I love you because I love you.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.