Fulton J. Sheen: Man

Fulton J. Sheen was Catholic bishop and television presenter. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Fulton J. Sheen: 156 quotes66 likes

“[N]o man hates God without first hating himself.”

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 1, p. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=ho40AAAAMAAJ&q=%22No+man+hates+God+without+first+hating+himself%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage

“Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 2, p. 19

“A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Life Is Worth Living

“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Life Is Worth Living

“A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Life Is Worth Living

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

Fulton J. Sheen

Whence Come Wars (1940), p. 60

“Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Second Series, p. 122
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)

“No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: The Armor of God (1943), Ch. 1, p. 4

“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Life Is Worth Living

“In contrast to the pride of those who deny their guilt to escape self-criticism is the humility of God, who made a world which added not to His glory and then made man to criticize Him.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 5, p. 85

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

Fulton J. Sheen

Though Sheen is quoted as saying this in Look magazine (14 December 1955) the earliest located declaration of this witticism was by John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir on 21 February 1936: "I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support."
Misattributed

“The man who has never made a mistake has no need of an eraser; just so the man who has never done anything wrong has no need of a Redeemer.”

Fulton J. Sheen

Source: The Armor of God (1943), Ch. 1, p. 4