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

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

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.

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

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

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