The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God si….

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

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change..

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..

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

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

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization..

By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made we….

Turn your car into a monastery..

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it..

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories..

The human race is one big dysfunctional family..

If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwe….

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 servi….

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated..

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

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness..

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], T….

Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off..

When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope..