Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Christ does not come off with the chasuble, nor is our ordination folded in a pocket as easily as a stole. Unbelievers do not see us in vestments; they see us in shops, in theatres, at meetings. Whether they see Christ in us depends on whether we act like Christ.

It is only when we recognize our inferiority that we become superior to others.

A man's love decreases with the revelation of defects; a woman's does not. 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. There is something divine in that kind of love, because God loves us in spite of all defects, our failings, and our sins. A man may stand for the Justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

Satan may appear in many disguises like Christ, and at the end of the world will appear as a benefactor and philanthropist—but Satan never has and never will appear with scars.

God does not always spare the good from grief. The Father spared not the Son, and the Son spared not the mother.

Sin is self-mutilation, the destruction of personality — when it takes the form of pride, it crowns Goodness with thorns; when it takes the form of dishonesty, it nails hands to a Cross; when it takes the form of hate, it blasphemes the dying; when it takes the form of lust, it crucifies.

Since lower nature had fallen through man, it was fitting that all lower nature should be reconciled to God through man. That is why there was an Incarnation instead of pantheism.

God spoke to the Gentiles through nature and philosophers; to the Jews, through prophecies.

The temptation that comes from without does not necessarily weaken character; indeed, when conquered, it affords an opportunity for holiness to increase.

God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.

It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.