I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

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.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

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.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

The real plague is willful ignorance and education can't cure that.

Nothing compares to the feeling that you get when you are in love.

Great partnerships should benefit us all

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.

I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.