Quotes from Fulton J. Sheen

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

All love craves unity.

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

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.

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

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

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.

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.