Fulton J. Sheen Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. Life of Christ

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

3. In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear. Three to Get Married

4. It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

5. Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. Life is Worth Living

6. Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves! Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

7. Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

8. A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. Life is Worth Living

9. Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

10. If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

11. Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love. Life Is Worth Living

12. Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction. Life Is Worth Living

13. The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

14. The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

15. The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious. Life Is Worth Living

16. Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.