black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Badness Capital Evil Goodness Spoil
Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Abandonment Aggressive Earth Life Soul
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Anxiety Assumption Creation Destiny Fake Freedom People
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Goodness Life Yourself
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Forgiveness Greatness Miracle
Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Better Earth Give Up God Religious
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Discover Himself Man Small Wisdom
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

Age Beautiful Deep Myself Woman
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
FULTON J. SHEEN

God Time Worship Yourself
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

Affection Along Angry Mistake Woman
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Criticism Ourselves Photograph Thinking Wall
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. SHEEN

Bad Letter Open Ourselves Reason
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Dependent Himself Humble Humility Soul Thankful
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.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Beginning Face God Language Listening Prayer Silence Soul Talk Truth
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Average Mindset Person Principle Subject Tolerance
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Born Himself Son Woman
Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Divine Forever Hands Moments Power Pregnant Yourself
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.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Absence Action Patience Power Principle Right Way
Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Attention Blessing Fact Himself Life Pay Thinking
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Close Example Judgement Live Spirit
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Day Evil God Negative Positive Time
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Atheist God Trust Worry
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Break God Goodness Heart Time Way
Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Consequence Evil Forgiveness Himself Result Sin
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Difference Love Man Reason Relationship Woman
It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Impossible Lose Religious Yourself

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes