Robert Barron Quotes
The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.
I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.
The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.
Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.
In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.
Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
