Fulton J. Sheen Catholic Quotations

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

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.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

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.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.