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

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for his mercy.

Fulton J. Sheen

A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked.

Fulton J. Sheen

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

Fulton J. Sheen

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Fulton J. Sheen

A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.

Fulton J. Sheen

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

Fulton J. Sheen

Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.

Fulton J. Sheen

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

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.

Fulton J. Sheen