Occupation: Priest Birth: 1959
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..
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..
The human race is one big dysfunctional family..
When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope..
We need to mock false gods publicly..
God is a placebo for your own mortality..
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes..
I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution..
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..
Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness..
For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrectio….
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it..
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. H….
The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human liv….