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.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

We need to mock false gods publicly.

For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.