Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

We grow weary, of course, but God is unwearied in giving us new strength.

Thanks to the Spirit, though the priest grows older in years, he becomes younger through ascent to the altar of God where youth is renewed.

Truth does grow, but it grows homogeneously, like an acorn into an oak; it does not swing in the breeze, like a weathercock. The leopard does not change his spots nor the Ethiopian his skin, though the leopard be put in bars or the Ethiopian in pink tights. The nature of certain things is fixed, and none more so than the nature of truth. Truth may be contradicted a thousand times, but that only proves that it is strong enough to survive a thousand assaults.

No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.

The truth that would answer this temptation was that faith in God must never contradict reason. The unreasonable venture never has the assurance of the Divine protection.

Three dominant evils prevailed—clerical concubinage, simony, and corruption within the church.

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

Thus He did at a marriage feast what He would not do in a desert; He worked in the full gaze of men what He had refused to do before Satan. Satan asked Him to turn stones into bread in order that He might become an economic Messias; His mother asked Him to change water into wine that He might become a Savior.

It is not wisdom that saves; it is ignorance! There is no redemption for the fallen

The Scriptures are not merely a record of historical events that have passed. They constitute for every age a revelation of God's mind and will to each individual.

Why repentance? Because it is the first act of a soul which turns back to God, the first stroke that severs sin from the heart.

Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II.