Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Tertullian said: "Penitence is a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at some previous feeling.

There is no door through which tears do not pass.

Our effectiveness at the bottom of the ladder depends on our communication with the top. Popularity is not necessarily influence. 'Woe upon you,' said Our Lord, 'when all men speak well of you.' Greatest is our compassion for others and our ability to elevate them when we have come down from heaven. The bottom of the ladder is best discovered from the top.

Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.

Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.

The Logos or Word of God taking a child on His lap will forever remain the mission of education- to share it as wealth must be shared.

But if Christ was not all that He said He was, namely, the Son of the living God, the Word of God in the flesh, then He was not "just a good man" then He was a knave, a liar, a charlatan and the greatest deceiver who ever lived.

As man did not come wholly out of nature, for man with his mind has a mysterious x which is not contained in his chemical and biological antecedents, so Christ did not come wholly out of humanity.

Blessed also are the poor in spirit socially.

Their mockery is something like we hear today. "Germany prays to God; America prays to God; England prays to God: On whose side is God?" The implication being that God must necessarily be a geographical Deity restricted to one people, one race, and one nation. The answer to that taunt is, of course, that if we prayed as we should, we would all be on the same side because the perfect prayer is: "Thy will be done."

Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.

Is there any way to restore harmony to the world? It can be done only by someone coming in from eternity and stopping the note in its wild flight. But will it still be a false note? The harmony can be destroyed on one condition only. If that note is made the first note in a new melody, then it will become harmonious.