Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Fulton J. Sheen
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Fulton J. Sheen
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Fulton J. Sheen
It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.
Fulton J. Sheen
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen
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.
Fulton J. Sheen
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton J. Sheen
Love is a mutual self-giving that ends in self-recovery.
Fulton J. Sheen
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen
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?
Fulton J. Sheen
The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
Fulton J. Sheen
The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
Fulton J. Sheen
The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
Fulton J. Sheen
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.
Fulton J. Sheen
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Type:
Clergyman
Date of Birth:
1895-05-08
Year of Death:
1979
Nationality:
American |
