Fulton J. Sheen

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

In this sublime hour therefore He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

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 love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

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

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say Good morning God and the other is to say Good God morning

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

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

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

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

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

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

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

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

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

One function of the angels is illumination and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires converting luxuries into necessities but it only intensifies mans inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

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