There are three laws of pleasure which make the attainment of happiness easier.

"Men and women are forever trying to add to their possessions far beyond the limit of enjoyment. This is because of their mistaken belief that their hunger for Infinity can be satisfied by an infinity of material things: what they really wish is the Infinity of Divine Love."

"Repose allows us to contemplate the little things we do in their relationship to the vast things which alone can give them worth and meaning."

"I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something quite different. I am asking him not to forgive me but to excuse me. But there is all the difference in the world between forgiving and excusing."

"Whom the Lord loveth tenderly, He chasteneth."

"From examining his own soul, any one of us can learn five general truths about all human beings."

"God made us out of nothing - nothing at all - and it well for us occasionally to recall that fact."

"This is, indeed, a century of revolutions. But it need not go down in history as a period when revolutions were entirely economic and political."

"Our exterior world today is in desperate straits, but the inner world of man is far from hopeless."

Sheen's thoughts on humility, egotism, and joy