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

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

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.

There's no way up but down.

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.