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 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.

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.

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

I still would have been in love with you and wanted a life with you, because of who you are. Not because of the things you did for me.

You don’t have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.

QUOTES BOUQUET: You Have To Fight Through Some Bad Days To Earn The Best Days Of Your Life

People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.