Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.
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 have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.
Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.
God is a placebo for your own mortality.