Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.
The human race is one big dysfunctional family.
The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.
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.
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.