Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
FULTON J. SHEENOur happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
-
-
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
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.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
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.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
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.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
FULTON J. SHEEN