Archbishop Fulton J Sheen Quotes

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble, his blessings.

All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in which God shared communion with human life, thus preparing for that greater Eucharist when human life would commune with the Divine. Mary’s joy was to form Christ in her own body; her joy now is to form Christ in our souls. In this Mystery, we pray to become pregnant with the Christ spirit, giving Him new lips with which He may speak of His Father, new hands with which He may feed the poor, and a new heart with which He may love everyone, even enemies.

Given a freedom that is independent of God, independent of the moral law, and independent of inalienable rights as the endowment of the Divine Spirit, America could vote itself out of democracy tomorrow.

Two tadpoles at the bottom of a pond were one day discussing the problem of existence. One said to the other, “I think I will stick my head out to see if there is anything else in the world.” The other tadpole said, “Don’t be silly, do you think there is anything else in this world besides water?” So those who live the natural life ignore the beauty of the higher life of grace.

The true notion is that the material universe is a sign or an indication of what God is. We look at the purity of the snowflake and we see something of the goodness of God. The world is full of poetry: it is sin which turns it into prose.

To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen