Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen

…discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

Decision

Excellent

Mean

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.

Catholic

May

Want

A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the “slave state” disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.

Flirting

Responsibility

Wisdom

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

Justice Of God

May

Men

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.

Cake

Essentials

Men

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

Evil

Hatred

His Love

A reasonable being should ask himself why – if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man – why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.

Animal

Men

Taken

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

Bus

Morning

Suicide

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does not understand teaching.

Children

Teacher

Teaching

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.

Deceit

Lying

Men

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Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen

…discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

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.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

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.

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

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

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does not understand teaching.

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.

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