Archbishop fulton sheen Quotes

“Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?” “I beg your pardon, ma’am?” “In church. Everybody else gets to read and one never does. It’s not laid down, is it? It’s not off-limits?” “Not that I’m aware, ma’am.”“Good. Well in that case I’m going to start. Leviticus, here I come. Goodnight.” The archbishop shook his head and went back to Strictly Come Dancing.”

“Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.”

“Comparisons are odious.”

“Archbishop: "God is with us!"William the Great : "Bishop, if God is with us, then he is not with them, congratulations!We are victorious!”

“Any fool can criticize and many of them do.”

“Forgiving is not forgetting. It is actually remembering - remembering and not using your right to hit back”

“The realm of God is dangerous. You must enter into it and not just seek information about it”

“Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.”

“No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity.”