Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

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

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

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.

There's no way up but down.

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.