Quotes from Fulton J. Sheen

The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.

The modern solution in marriage is to find a new love; the Christian solution is to recapture an old love. Divorce with remarriage is a sign that one never loved a person in the first place, but only the pleasure which that person gave.

The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few. His

God writes His name on the soul of every man. Reason and conscience are the God within us in the natural order.

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the death of our Lord and his broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on the way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject. Love is directed to someone else for the sake of the other's perfection; sex is directed to self for the sake of self-satisfaction.

Only two classes of people found the Babe: the shepherds and the Wise Men; the simple and the learned; those who knew that they knew nothing, and those who knew that they did not know everything. He is never seen by the man of one book; never by the man who thinks he knows. Not even God can tell the proud anything! Only the humble can find God!

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

a friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure. In this kind of love, the lover loves himself more than his friend. That is why, if the friend ever prevents him from realizing what he wants, his love turns to hate.

The skin of Christ is the parchment, His blood the ink, the nails the pen. There we see written the story of our life.

Do not say we work to go to Heaven because we are mercenary. Does a man love a woman and ask for her hand because he is mercenary? I love poetry; there's no money in it.

Communism is strong only when it borrows some of the moral indignation that has been inherited from the Hebraic-Christian traditions;

They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.

The refusal to love is hell.

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

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?

All our anxieties relate to time.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.