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

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.

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.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

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.

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