Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
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.
We need to mock false gods publicly.
A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.
Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.
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.