The Priest Is Not His Own Quotes

“In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Love begins when duty finishes. It is a giving of the cloak when the coat is taken. It is walking the extra mile.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Conscience is always enlightened when sin is seen as hurting someone we love. No sin can touch one of God’s stars or silence one of His words, but it can cruelly wound His heart. Once the Penitent understands this truth, he can see why he has such emptiness and desolation and his soul: he hurt the one he loves.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“The word enough does not exist in Love's vocabulary”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“The crisis in their souls begins at the moment when they either recognize that they have tremendous potentialities not yet exercised or begin to yearn for a religious life which will make greater demands on them. Up to that moment of crisis, they have lived on the surface of their souls. The tension deepens as they realize that, like a plant, they have roots which need greater spiritual depths and branches meant for communion with the heavens above.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“When money is needed, a priest thinks nothing of organizing a door-to-door canvas; but how often does he make a door-to-door canvas for converts?”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“The man who says, ‘I am so stupid,’ instead of ‘Lord be merciful to me, I sinner,’ is still far from rebirth.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Repentance is not concerned with consequences. This is what distinguishes it from remorse, which is inspired principally by fear of unpleasant consequences”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“The fall of the priest is completed by these steps: neglect of prayer, withdrawal to a distance from the Eucharistic Lord, dedication to a comfortable existence, negligence concerning occasions of sin and, finally, the substitution of a creature for Christ.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Too often, when someone appeals for help in trouble and exposes to the priest his depressed soul, we tell him to pray. Certainly! But do we intercede?”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“There is no 'on duty' for a priest.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“True love by its nature imposes restrictions.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Purity is a reflection of faith.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“The word 'enough' does not exist in love's vocabulary.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“To doubt forgiveness is the beginning of hell.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“There is a dangerous tendency among many in modern times who call themselves Christians to divorce Christ and the Cross.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“The nearer men are to God, the more exposed they are to the touch of His chastening hands.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“It is through His Death, Resurrection and Ascension to the right hand of God that Christ has become the Mediator and re-established relations between God and Man.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“God makes up for every abnegation by a greater blessing.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“But He pointed to His torn and battered Self on a hill, and then added that only through the Cross in their lives will there ever be beauty of soul in the newness of life.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“In His own case, now as always, the most sorrowful moods pass into the most blissful; there is never the Cross without the Resurrection; the ‘Hour’ in which evil has mastery passes quickly into the ‘Day’ where God is Victor.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“We learn to speak through listening, and we grow in love of God through listening.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“But the Sacred Heart wishes great graces to be distributed to souls through the hands of His priests.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Our hearts will be where our joys are.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Under the guidance of the Spirit every trial enriches the soul... He best heals wounds who has felt a similar wound.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Why repentance? Because it is the first act of a soul which turns back to God, the first stroke that severs sin from the heart.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“We belong to a different union, where love, not hours, is the standard. When we think of all the Lord has done for us, we can never do enough. The word ‘enough’ does not exist in love’s vocabulary.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“The lazy priest always has less time than the zealous priest, because the former is thinking in terms of the interruptions to his leisure, while the latter seeks the opportunity to be another Christ. The priest’s time is not his own; it is Our Lord’s.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“God insists on ‘Today.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“The Scriptures are not merely a record of historical events that have passed. They constitute for every age a revelation of God’s mind and will to each individual.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own