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.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

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.

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.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

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.

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.