Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.

The modern solution in marriage is to find a new love; the Christian solution is to recapture an old love. Divorce with remarriage is a sign that one never loved a person in the first place, but only the pleasure which that person gave.

The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few.

God writes His name on the soul of every man. Reason and conscience are the God within us in the natural order.

For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject. Love is directed to someone else for the sake of the other's perfection; sex is directed to self for the sake of self-satisfaction.

Only two classes of people found the Babe: the shepherds and the Wise Men; the simple and the learned; those who knew that they knew nothing, and those who knew that they did not know everything. He is never seen by the man of one book; never by the man who thinks he knows. Not even God can tell the proud anything! Only the humble can find God!

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

A friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure. In this kind of love, the lover loves himself more than his friend. That is why, if the friend ever prevents him from realizing what he wants, his love turns to hate.

The skin of Christ is the parchment, His blood the ink, the nails the pen. There we see written the story of our life.

Do not say we work to go to Heaven because we are mercenary. Does a man love a woman and ask for her hand because he is mercenary? I love poetry; there's no money in it.

Communism is strong only when it borrows some of the moral indignation that has been inherited from the Hebraic-Christian traditions;

They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.