black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

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
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
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
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Discussion Existence Modern Sex Subject Time
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Day Morning Smile Suicide
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Believe Difference Fake Man Modern Tolerance View
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
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
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
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Dedication Enthusiasm Faith Live Religion Yourself
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Difference End Hate Right Wrong
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
FULTON J. SHEEN

God Ourselves Suffering Wonder
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’!
FULTON J. SHEEN

Morning Perspective Religious Wake Up Way
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Feeling Myself Pay Time Writing
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Affection Divine God Happiness Human Love
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

Bad Forgiveness Man Religious Sin

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes