Quotes from Fulton J. Sheen

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

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

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

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Man is incurably curious.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.