Life Is Worth Living Quotes

“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“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, Life Is Worth Living

“Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“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.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!”
― Fulton J. Sheen, 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, Life Is Worth Living

“We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“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.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Man is incurably curious.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little "kinks".”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“As our Lord said, "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called “modern” ideas are really old errors with new labels.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And we must ask ourselves as we hear of treaties being written today, whether the treaties of the UN are written with the full cognizance of the fact that those who sign them are responsible before God?”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“They excuse themselves, saying they are bored because they are not loved: No! They are bored because they do not love; because they have denied love.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not as we would like to be in the eyes of the public; not as our press notices say we are, but as we are in the sight of God when we examine our conscience.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living