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

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

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

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

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 well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".

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 lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.