Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.
Turn your car into a monastery.
There's no way up but down.
I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.
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.