The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.

Turn your car into a monastery.

We need to mock false gods publicly.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

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

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

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.