The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

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

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

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.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

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.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.