Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

We lose our souls not only by the evil we do but also by the good we leave undone.

The world is full of poetry; it is sin which turns it into prose.

The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.

Mary!—we poor creatures of earth are stumbling over our freedoms, fumbling over our choices. Millions of us are seeking to give up their freedom—some by repudiating it, because of the burden of their guilt—some, by surrendering it to the moods and fashions of the time—others, by absorption into Communism, where there is only one will, which is the dictator's, and where the only love is hate and revolution!

The communion rail is a place of exchange. They give time and receive eternity, they give self-denial and receive love, they give nothingness, and receive all.

One reason for a long life is penance. Time is given us not just to accumulate that which we cannot take with us, but to make reparation for our sins.

We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.

I want to be ignorant of everything in the world — everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!

In the circuits of the planets there are times when the heavens are under the earth, and in the ways of God with men there was a time when Heaven was under the earth, and that was when Christ was born in the cave of Bethlehem.

Without Me you can do nothing"… nothing.

Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.