Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

All love craves unity.

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.