Bishop Fulton J Sheen- some quotes

[Mathews]

Below are a few of his most famous quotes..."GOD LOVE YOU!"

 

"The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order."

"The  Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American  culture is like Christ without the Cross."

"Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it."

"Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world."

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. " 

"I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. " 

"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.  "

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.  "

"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. " 

"Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. "

 "Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

"The Church is like Noah's ark that was full of both clean and unclean animals. It must have had an unholy smell, and yet it was carrying eight persons to salvation. The world today is tearing up the photographs of a good society, a good family, a happy, individual personal life. But the Church is keeping the negatives. And when the moment comes when the world wants a reprint, we will have them."

"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?  "

“You should realize that the community with which you deal is not the one of 42nd Street and Broadway, or Hollywood and Vine. These are the crusts on the great American sandwich. The meat is in between.”

"The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.”

"The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away. "

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

"The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.”  

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”   

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” 

“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?” 

“There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do”    

“Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.” 

“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” 

“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”